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taunt
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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
  • 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
  • If Peter tries to taunt me, she will defend me.  (source)
    taunt = intentionally upset
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  • Miguel would look at her and before riding off with Papa, he would give her a taunting smile.  (source)
    taunting = intentionally angering, challenging, or upsetting
  • Ever been taunted for your woeful wandwork?  (source)
    taunted = intentionally angered, challenged, or upset
  • Perhaps all this had been his idea, and that was why he had come this morning, to taunt me and gloat.  (source)
    taunt = mock or tease to upset
  • "C'mon, boys," Maya taunts. "Is that all you can do?"  (source)
    taunts = challenges
  • ABIGAIL, tauntingly: You come five mile to see a silly girl fly?†  (source)
    tauntingly = in a manner that intentionally angers, challenges, or upsets someone
  • They dreaded the awful tauntings of irresponsible white men, the jailing, the frames.†  (source)
    tauntings = instances of intentionally angering, challenging, or upsetting someone
  • 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)
    taunter = someone who intentionally angers, challenges, or upsets someone
  • No comfort knowing that the taunters were rag pickers too.†  (source)
    taunters = people who intentionally anger, challenge, or upset someone
  • He was taunting the animals now, snarling back, and it drove them wild.  (source)
    taunting = teasing
  • ...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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