-baiting

a combining form used to describe hate speech and other rhetoric or depictions that target a minoritized group in order to denigrate that group or for the purpose of pitting different identity groups against one another:
gender-baiting;
queerbaiting;
race-baiting.

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Word History and Origins

First recorded in 1920–25; from bait ( def ) (in the sense “to worry, torment”) + -ing ¹( def ); modeled after Jew-baiting ( def )

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They knew how to lure dogs into swamps, where they were used as bait for alligators.

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Elie calls this pages link bait pages because they easily attract links.

Crab trap success is dependent on using fresh baits, usually fish.

When a crab grabs the bait, you can feel the line move and slowly lift the crab toward the surface to be netted.

When line tension is released from the trap, it opens in a four-sided pattern, making the bait available to any nearby crab.

Open-carry activists are known for baiting cops into on-camera arguments about the Second Amendment and state laws.

Limbaugh makes comments like this because his right-wing fans require a non–stop diet of race-baiting red meat.

When you saw it out in Ferguson, there was a baiting going on.

The Netflix prison dramedy, with its binge-baiting release strategy, is engrossing in every sense of word.

Desperate to stand out, some megachurches are baiting Easter crowds with flat-screen TVs, iPads, and Starbucks gift cards.

The Judge inquired if that was the sole object of the plaintiff, or was it not rather baiting with a sprat to catch a herring?

The little shrivelled don who had been omniscient about guns joined in the baiting, and displayed himself a venomous creature.

At Bamberg why should a Prussian Majesty linger, except for picturesque or for mere baiting purposes?

He seemed to be baiting his hook for another cast in the river.

Her blandness was beyond all baiting; she professed she could be as still as a mouse.

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