- present participle of taunt.
taunting
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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
Never mind their dozens of targeted social media posts and years of taunting.
From Salon ● Jun. 25, 2026
Sean Duffy is even taunting Pete Buttigieg about it, in a bout of dreaded intra–transportation secretary violence.
From Slate ● May 5, 2026
The weather remained stifling, as if taunting him.
From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson
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
Go with your tauntings, go; Neer think to hurt me so; I'll scoff at your disdain.
From Poems Chiefly from Manuscript by John Clare
The married state, is much like this, O'rewhelm'd with many crosses, Yet must be born, see how it is, With tauntings, toils, and losses.
From The Ten Pleasures of Marriage and the Second Part, The Confession of the New Married Couple by A. Marsh
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
