taunting

He knows from experience that a person embarking on a first draft is usually a person surrounded by cruel, taunting voices that fan self-doubt and predict failure.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 8, 2026

Riley didn’t catch his player taunting the Oregon sideline as the Ducks watched their teammate lay prone at the USC 12-yard line.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 27, 2026

Earlier in the week, Carney criticized taunting of Canada by U.S. officials, and said it was not constructive toward resolving outstanding trade issues.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 3, 2026

It's said that he built the causeway as a bridge to Scotland, in order to fight another giant who was taunting him.

From BBC ● Aug. 18, 2026

Each match began simply enough, with a ritualistic strutting around the circle, the two combatants physically taunting each other in a sort of aggressive dance.

From "Scythe" by Neal Shusterman

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

Antinoüs hath a tongue accustom’d much To tauntings, and promotes them in the rest.

From The Odyssey of Homer by William Cowper

Where, then, will be your tauntings and your vauntings, your boastings and your braggings?

From The History of the Life of the Late Mr Jonathan Wild the Great by Henry Fielding

It was with extreme regret, and frequently with uncontrollable indignation, that I endured the neglect of my husband and the tauntings of the profligate Lyttelton.

From Beaux and Belles of England Mrs. Mary Robinson, Written by Herself, With the lives of the Duchesses of Gordon and Devonshire by Mary Robinson

At many bends of the Sweetwater they paused and made sorties; but the savages fell back, later to close in, sometimes under cover so near that their tauntings could be heard.

From The Covered Wagon by Emerson Hough