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taunt
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Warriors Don't Cry
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- The boy continued his taunting throughout the period.†
p. 98.1taunting = intentionally angering, challenging, or upsetting
- Amid all the hecklers taunting me, two girls had smiled and waved a welcome.†
p. 100.3
- More white students gathered around and taunted me, applauding and cheering: "The nigger's down."†
p. 108.3taunted = intentionally angered, challenged, or upset
- As we approached the stairs, we were greeted by taunting catcalls and the kind of behavior students had not dared to exhibit in the face of the 101st.†
p. 118.1taunting = intentionally angering, challenging, or upsetting
- At every turn, we were faced with more taunts and blows.†
p. 118.4taunts = (verb) intentionally angers, challenges, or upsets someone OR (noun) insults or other actions intended to anger, challenge, or upset someone
- Early that morning a boy began to taunt me as though he had been assigned that task.†
p. 118.8taunt = (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
- I walked up the stairs to homeroom, only to be greeted by the same two boys who had been taunting me every day.†
p. 142.4taunting = intentionally angering, challenging, or upsetting
- Central High segregationists used the details to taunt us.†
p. 142.7taunt = (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
- Snickering among themselves and taunting her, they had pushed a chair directly in front of her.†
p. 149.1taunting = intentionally angering, challenging, or upsetting
- Later she would explain that the boys had been taunting her, sticking their feet in the aisle to trip her, kicking her, and calling her names.†
p. 149.8
- A red-haired, freckle-faced girl, the one who taunts me in homeroom, keeps trailing me in the hallway between classes.†
p. 169.1taunts = (verb) intentionally angers, challenges, or upsets someone OR (noun) insults or other actions intended to anger, challenge, or upset someone
- He resembled one of those big tough boys who got their kicks taunting me.†
p. 171.8taunting = intentionally angering, challenging, or upsetting
- But as they became preoccupied with exchanging autographs, a few of them let up on chasing and taunting us.†
p. 207.1 *
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) More rarely, taunt can be used as a noun to refer to something said or done to mock, criticize, and/or tease.