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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
teasingly
adverb
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Kat Bjelland rather teasingly answered that she's never felt constrained by male domination - unwillingly.
▪ No, Alvin said teasingly, dance with me.
▪ When daddy teasingly takes the toy car away he, too, is getting between the child and his interest.
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teasingly

adv. in a teasing way or manner.

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teasingly

adv. in a playfully teasing manner; "`You hate things to be out of order, don't you?' she said teasingly" [syn: tauntingly]

Usage examples of "teasingly".

My card tricks had amused her, and she teasingly challenged me to perform some more for her alone, so that she might see how I did them.

Her fingers played teasingly with the disrobing loop at her left shoulder.

On the Monday, though, Slater had been in the small steamy cafe and sandwich bar on Red Lion Street which he usually spent most of his term days in, and Graham had supplied him with cups of tea and expensive rounds of smoked salmon on granary bread while Slater slowly, teasingly, told him about Sara.

Wong Feng sat, sipping his kirsch, listening with absent ears to the wailings of a flageolet and drums, watching with idle, nonseeing eyes as the belly-dancers undulated teasingly before him.