Sample Sentences for
taunt
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    If Peter tries to taunt me, she will defend me.  (source)
    taunt = intentionally upset
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    On this occasion, Liesel followed Rudy's taunt almost as a reflex action.  (source)
    taunt = insult or other action intended to anger, challenge, or upset someone
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    I knew I was being cruel, like when I'd taunt him if he didn't know some big word.  (source)
    taunt = intentionally mock or insult
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    So Malfoy, jealous and angry, had gone back to taunting Harry about having no proper family.  (source)
    taunting = intentionally angering, challenging, or upsetting
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    ...and they taunted me with, "Do you really kiss trees? Didn't you know you're supposed to kiss boys?"  (source)
    taunted = teased (in an upsetting way)
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    It was an old taunt, blunted by overuse.  (source)
    taunt = insult or other action intended to anger, challenge, or upset someone
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    "C'mon, boys," Maya taunts. "Is that all you can do?"  (source)
    taunts = challenges
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    ABIGAIL, tauntingly: You come five mile to see a silly girl fly?†  (source)
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    They dreaded the awful tauntings of irresponsible white men, the jailing, the frames.†  (source)
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    When someone taunted Clive Saunders for walking like a girl, I would deliver swift vengeance with my foot to the taunter's less-protected parts.†  (source)
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    No comfort knowing that the taunters were rag pickers too.†  (source)
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    He was taunting the animals now, snarling back, and it drove them wild.  (source)
    taunting = teasing
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    Maybe it's why he stood there and taunted Roland.  (source)
    taunted = mocked or insulted to intentionally challenge or upset
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