All 9 Uses of
taunt
in
A Great and Terrible Beauty
- Felicity stops, turns to me, that pale face taunting.†
Chpt 7 *taunting = intentionally angering, challenging, or upsetting
- The life of Mary Dowd sits on my bed, taunting me.†
Chpt 8
- It's a deer I'm chasing, its milky brown flesh peeking through trees like the taunts of a will-o'—the-wisp.†
Chpt 10taunts = (verb) intentionally angers, challenges, or upsets someone OR (noun) insults or other actions intended to anger, challenge, or upset someone
- "You're awfully interested," Elizabeth taunts.†
Chpt 12
- "And no spitting it back in," Felicity taunts.†
Chpt 13
- But then I remember the threats and taunts, the smirking way he tried to order me about, and all my sympathy vanishes.†
Chpt 24
- It's such a Pippa thing to say—foolish and taunting.†
Chpt 25taunting = intentionally angering, challenging, or upsetting
- Felicity is taunting me with the poem.†
Chpt 35
- Out of the corner of my eye, taunting me, and then it's gone.†
Chpt 38
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.