Citations:tweak

to fine-tune

 * 2019, Charles McGrath, They Were the Renaissance Men of Roman Antiquity, (10 December 2019);
 * Pliny claimed to have taken no care in collecting and arranging these letters, but he almost certainly polished and tweaked them after the fact to make himself look good for posterity. As a result, they’re sometimes a little stuffy, with none of the spontaneity and depth of feeling in Cicero’s letters, which were often dashed off right in the thick of things.

to annoy

 * 2008, Christian Jacobsen, AD 2036 Is The End: The Truth About the Second Coming of Christ and the Meaning of Life, iUniverse (ISBN 9780595437986), page 390:
 * He likes to tweak people like you.” “Tweak?” “Yes, and obviously his irreverence has worked. You let him get to you to such an extent that you made the absurd assertion that the United Methodists do not believe that Jesus has a penis.
 * 2015, Karla Mantilla, Gendertrolling: How Misogyny Went Viral: How Misogyny Went Viral, ABC-CLIO (ISBN 9781440833182), page 94:
 * Their goal is to tweak people by taking outrageous or offensive stances and then enjoy observing the reactions of shock and distress they cause. Gendertrolls, on the other hand, believe fervently in the ideas they espouse
 * 2021, Thomas Dyja, New York, New York, New York: Four Decades of Success, Excess, and Transformation, Simon and Schuster (ISBN 9781982149802), page 91:
 * “I always like to tweak people if I can,” said the mayor. “Especially if I don&#39;t like them. This is something vicious in me.” “Vicious or not,” nodded New York, “the city loves the mayor&#39;s act. He&#39;s one of us.” And who exactly “we” were ...