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
Rather than try to flee, the larger speedboat began circling the inflatable, taunting the four Civil Guard officers aboard.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 23, 2026
Never mind their dozens of targeted social media posts and years of taunting.
From Salon ● Jun. 25, 2026
Owner Tara Zaman said they targeted the shop several times, "taking things" and "taunting" and "tormenting" her staff.
From BBC ● May 7, 2026
Beaming genially, Hodor looked, from one Frey to the other, oblivious to their taunting.
From "A Clash of Kings" by George R.R. Martin
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
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
"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
