hit out
cheek up
cheek up to
bearbait
instigate
misreact
settle someone's hash
throw shade
tread on someone's toes
get up someone's nose
vituperate
make someone's flesh creep
harrow
taunt
clutch one's pearls
snapping
inch
get someone's dander up
get someone's Irish up
enturbulate
turn off
rub up the wrong way
set up one's bristles
embarrass
bat an eyelid
ether
raise someone's hackles
get someone's back up
curl someone's hair
kick to the curb
snoot
cold shoulder
mither
greet
at someone's throat
hurtful
hate on
pelt
show one's butt
stick the knife in
brustle
acerbity
belabour
outface
tempt
brushback pitch
slur
lewd
get at
edgelord
get someone's goat
comb someone's hair the wrong way
make a nuisance of oneself
spite
slap down
work over
discomfit
backtalk
skeeve
provokingly
perversion
bristle
get it
retaliate
chew up and spit out
repelling
lech
abuse
reactionarily
get a rise out of
rasp
bridle
get under someone's skin
give curry
tease
get on someone's bad side
loweringly
provocatively
ask for it
bare one's teeth
make someone's skin crawl
rip into
slide
ball-bust
break someone's balls
worry
forbiddingly
demureness
offend
push someone's buttons
coyness
jolt
inflammatory
abrasionally
huff
roast
wag a finger
draw
offensivity
harrowingly