taunting
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The Wrigley faithful turned up the heat, taunting “Skuuuuubaaaaalll.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 5, 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
But the phantoms of the past remain, haunting our dreams and taunting us with the comfort of imagined reconciliation, until we wake up and it slips away.
From Salon ● Apr. 24, 2026
So Malfoy, jealous and angry, had gone back to taunting Harry about having no proper family.
From "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone" by J.K. Rowling
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
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 Robinson, Mary
Antinoüs hath a tongue accustom’d much To tauntings, and promotes them in the rest.
From The Odyssey of Homer by Cowper, William
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 Riley, James Whitcomb
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 Hough, Emerson
