All 10 Uses of
taunt
in
The Brothers Karamazov
- But at last they left him alone and gave up taunting him with being a "regular girl," and what's more they looked upon it with compassion as a weakness.†
Chpt 1 *taunting = intentionally angering, challenging, or upsetting
- "What touching sentimentality!" said Rakitin tauntingly; "and she's sitting on his knee, too!†
Chpt 7tauntingly = in a manner that intentionally angers, challenges, or upsets someone
- "Rakitin," he said suddenly, in a firm and loud voice; "don't taunt me with having rebelled against God.†
Chpt 7taunt = (verb) to intentionally anger, challenge, or upset someone -- especially by mocking them or hurling insults OR (noun) an insult or other action intended to anger, challenge, or upset someone
- Don't taunt me with dressing up, Rakitin, you don't know all that is in my heart!†
Chpt 7
- She went so far that the boys actually began to mock at him on her account and taunt him with being a "mother's darling."†
Chpt 10
- The boys, seeing I'd given him up, set on him and taunted him, shouting, 'Wisp of tow, wisp of tow!'†
Chpt 10taunted = intentionally angered, challenged, or upset
- "In the ordinary occasions of life," he said in the same complacent and sententious tone in which he had taunted Grigory and argued with him about religion at Fyodor Pavlovitch's table, "in the ordinary occasions of life, blows on the face are forbidden nowadays by law, and people have given them up, but in exceptional occasions of life people still fly to blows, not only among us but all over the world, be it even the fullest Republic of France, just as in the time of Adam and Eve, and they never will leave off, but you, even in an exceptional case, did not dare."†
Chpt 11
- He taunted me with being angry at his being a simple devil and not Satan, with scorched wings, in thunder and lightning.†
Chpt 11
- He kept taunting me with believing in him, and that was how he made me listen to him.†
Chpt 11taunting = intentionally angering, challenging, or upsetting
- He was met by cynical taunts, suspicions and wrangling about money.†
Chpt 12taunts = (verb) intentionally angers, challenges, or upsets someone OR (noun) insults or other actions intended to anger, challenge, or upset someone
Definitions:
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(1)
(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 -
(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) meaning too rare to warrant focus:
More rarely, taunt can be used as a noun to refer to something said or done to mock, criticize, and/or tease.