Sometimes teasing is funny, but sometimes it is hurtful.
I live for laughing and teasing and I have never met a stranger.
She grew cross and wearisome; snapping at and teasing Catherine continually, at the imminent risk of exhausting her limited patience.
As Hipgnosis or alone, they eventually created brain-teasing graphics for old-school heavyweights like Led Zeppelin, The Who and Genesis, and new-school noisemakers like The Mars Volta and Muse.
Still, the teasing continued.
Don't take it seriously - he's only teasing.
Teachers and students talked together about how bad teasing can make others feel.
Occasional teasing and banter among colleagues, particularly if it revolves around things associated with the job, can boost creativity, departmental cohesiveness and performance, they say.
By the time she was 16, Alice had suffered some bullying at school -nothing too specific just typical teenage teasing - and was worried about gaining weight due to a thyroid condition.
We can conjure other teasing theories.
Mehsud took pleasure in teasing the authorities with their failure to kill or capture him.
So far, it appears that activating brown fat requires some very specific triggers, and these results are only the first step in teasing out what those conditions are.
The boy's teasing gets Dick going.
This often means teasing out targets that are very far away or small, and hence faint.
It is not so with me, to whom sleep is a coy mistress, much given to a teasing inconsistency and for ever demanding to be wooed —"lest too light winning make the prize light".
Sometimes, even in a classroom full of other students, the teasing made her feel all alone.
In a playfully teasing manner.
I am not teasing Lao Zi, but the level of recognization a thousand years ago is far behind that of today.
And the truth is I feel a little sorry for the teasing he has absorbed since the housing bubble burst.
Few of us read as Twombly did, steeping himself in Greek, Latin and English verse, and teasing the beholder to follow up enigmatic quotations scrawled in a languid stain on his sighs of paintings.
He is only teasing. Don't take it so seriously.
After all, teasing is an essential part of foreplay.