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taunt
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Spare Parts, by Joshua Davis
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Kids felt bolder on the bus because the bus driver was driving and couldn't do anything to stop the taunting.†
p. 23.1 *

taunting = intentionally angering, challenging, or upsetting
Though he was ridiculed by some of his teachers and taunted by his classmates, Cristian was convinced, even by age six, that he was smarter than most of them.†
p. 23.3

taunted = intentionally angered, challenged, or upset
That meant no more school buses and fewer chances that he'd be taunted.†
p. 25.7
The taunting increased as his sophomore year got under way.†
p. 114.2

taunting = intentionally angering, challenging, or upsetting
At the time, his younger brother, Ali, was a straight-A student at the University of California, San Diego, and Ali taunted Fredi for attending what he viewed as a lesser school.†
p. 116.8

taunted = intentionally angered, challenged, or upset

Definitions:

(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)
More rarely, taunt can be used as a noun to refer to something said or done to mock, criticize, and/or tease.