baiting
Hooking with temptation
Baiting is the act of luring or provoking.
You bait a hook to catch fish, bait a trap to catch animals.
Extended to people, baiting means deliberately provoking a reaction—often anger: He kept baiting her until she snapped.
Online, baiting describes posts designed to provoke outrage or argument: rage baiting, engagement baiting.
Historically, bear-baiting and bull-baiting were blood sports using dogs to torment chained animals.
Device for catching animals
- snareDevice for catching prey
- scentAirborne odor detected
- blindLacking the sense of sight
- decoyFalse target for misdirection
hounds · tracking · quarry · stalking · prey · ambush · trail · camouflage
Device for catching animals
- stingSharp wound from insect
- setupHow something is arranged
- lureThing that tempts
- decoyFalse target for misdirection
ambush · snare · ploy · ruse · scheme · honeypot · entice · manipulate
Inciting through persistent pressure
- tauntingInsulting to provoke
- hecklingHostile audience interruption
- mockeryScornful ridicule or travesty
- ridiculeContemptuous mocking treatment
antagonism · incitement · harassment · instigation · agitation · trolling · needling · pestering
Thing that tempts
- enticementSomething that attracts
- allureAttractive, tempting quality
- seductionEnticing someone romantically
- tantalizeTease with unreachable things
entice · tempt · attraction · inducement · incentive · appeal · draw · charm
Sensationalized content for traffic
- phishingFraudulent credential harvesting
- spoofingFraudulent imitation
- scamDishonest money-making scheme
- malwareHarmful computer programs
pretexting · vishing · smishing · whaling · impersonation · credential · link · spam
trap
Device for catching animals
decoy · hounds · tracking · quarry · stalking · prey · ambush · trail · camouflage · gamekeeper
trap
Device for catching animals
decoy · ambush · snare · ploy · ruse · scheme · honeypot · entice · manipulate · ensnare
goading
Inciting through persistent pressure
- tauntingInsulting to provoke
- hecklingHostile audience interruption
- mockeryScornful ridicule or travesty
ridicule · antagonism · incitement · harassment · instigation · agitation · trolling · needling · pestering · inflammatory
hook
Curved catching device
tackle · cast · line · reel · bobber · sinker · rod · chumming · jigging · trolling
lure
Thing that tempts
- enticementSomething that attracts
- allureAttractive, tempting quality
- seductionEnticing someone romantically
tantalize · entice · tempt · attraction · inducement · incentive · appeal · draw · charm · carrot
clickbait
Sensationalized content for traffic
- phishingFraudulent credential harvesting
- spoofingFraudulent imitation
- scamDishonest money-making scheme
malware · pretexting · vishing · smishing · whaling · impersonation · credential · link · spam · fraudulent
- capture methodsnetting, trapping, snaring, lasso, ambush
- huntingdeer hunting, hunting rifle, hunters, tracking, hunting license
- pest controlinsecticide, rat trap, pesticide, mousetrap, exterminator
- game strategybluffing, feinting, misdirection, positioning, counterattack
- online actionsposting, click, commenting, tap, replying
- provocationgoading, taunting, incitement, instigation, needling
baitingsoothing
Reducing distress or discomfort
calming · pacifying · appeasing · mollifying · placating
baitingrepelling
Pushing away forcefully
deterring · driving away · repulsing · discouraging · warding off
baitingignoring
Deliberately not noticing
disregarding · avoiding · shunning · overlooking · leaving alone
- race baitingProvoking ethnic animosity deliberately
- bear baitingBlood sport with restrained ursine
- queer baitingHinting at identity for audiences
- red baitingAccusing others of leftist sympathies
- bull baitingBlood sport with dogs
bait, debate, abate, debatable, debated, baited, abated, rebate, debater