taunting
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Never mind their dozens of targeted social media posts and years of taunting.
From Salon ● Jun. 25, 2026
Neither incidents involved taunting players from the opposing team, and both of those techs have reportedly been rescinded.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 23, 2026
"I think there was an image on Saturday of a Celtic fan on the pitch with a kid in his arms taunting the Hearts players."
From BBC ● May 18, 2026
Sean Duffy is even taunting Pete Buttigieg about it, in a bout of dreaded intra–transportation secretary violence.
From Slate ● May 5, 2026
No Korean father or mother, no taunting boys or girls, no teachers showing me how to say my American name.
From "Native Speaker" by Chang-rae Lee
His tauntings washed over Kingshaw, they sounded babyish, he didn't care at all what Hooper said.
From "I'm the King of the Castle" by Susan Hill
"Such tauntings are but a childish barter of words."
From The President A novel by Alfred Henry Lewis
Antinoüs hath a tongue accustom’d much To tauntings, and promotes them in the rest.
From The Odyssey of Homer by William Cowper
Gerda rose from the foam where she had been playing serenely impervious to the tauntings of Kay.
From Dangerous Ages by Dame Rose Macaulay
Stay thy chattering chin, And reel the tauntings of thy vain tongue in, Nor tempt me further with thy vaporish boast That I am helpless to combat thee!
From Green Fields and Running Brooks, and Other Poems by James Whitcomb Riley
