All 8 Uses of
taunt
in
Catch-22
- 'Subito, subito,' he taunted her tenderly.†
Chpt 16 *
- 'Here,' she taunted him sardonically, biting on her lip to still a delicate tremor.†
Chpt 16
- He was almost certain now that Colonel Korn remembered and that calling him Father with a look of such bland innocence was just another one of Colonel Korn's methods of taunting him because he was only an Anabaptist.†
Chpt 20
- 'Exactly,' agreed the old man pleasantly, with a hint of taunting amusement.†
Chpt 23
- Major Sanderson smiled tauntingly and wrote 'Dunbar' on his pad.†
Chpt 27
- Two figures leaped up in silhouette when they heard him and fled into the night with taunting laughter before he could get there.†
Chpt 34
- Hungry Joe was hardly around, and the only other person who ever spoke to him was Captain Black, who called him 'Old Blood and Guts' in a merry, taunting voice each time he hailed him and who came back from Rome toward the end of the week to tell him Nately's whore was gone.†
Chpt 38
- 'Oh, it will be a lot easier than you think,' Colonel Korn taunted in return, undismayed by Yossarian's barb.†
Chpt 40
Definition:
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(taunt) to intentionally anger, challenge, or upset someone -- especially by mocking them or hurling insults
or (as a noun): an insult or other action intended to anger, challenge, or upset someone