All 6 Uses of
taunt
in
Gone with the Wind
- I should think you'd have more pride than to try to look like Mrs. Merriwether," he taunted.†
Chpt 2.13taunted = intentionally angered, challenged, or upset
- Those damned nigger lovers daring to come here and taunt her about her poverty!†
Chpt 4.32taunt = (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
- She hated him, sitting there in his dandified attire, taunting her.†
Chpt 4.36 *taunting = intentionally angering, challenging, or upsetting
- Once, the thought of flinging the truth tauntingly in Melanie's face and seeing the collapse of her fool's paradise had been an intoxicating one, a gesture worth everything she might lose thereby.†
Chpt 5.55tauntingly = in a manner that intentionally angers, challenges, or upsets someone
- Some of Rhett's taunting words of contempt came back to her and she wondered if indeed Ashley had played the manly part in this mess.†
Chpt 5.55taunting = intentionally angering, challenging, or upsetting
- Why hadn't she realized that he loved her, for all his taunting remarks to the contrary?†
Chpt 5.62
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.