taunting
Example Sentences
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Will he still marry her now, Ms. Williams’s Anna asks with taunting sarcasm?
“It was almost like the system was taunting me,” said Alex, who is now a Cal State University graduate student and chose to use his middle name for fear of being targeted by immigration authorities.
From Los Angeles Times
But Obasi suggests the attacks "may also be acts of defiance by some armed groups, taunting the US to make good on its threat of military action in Nigeria".
From Barron's
The children carried on at full volume, a cacophony of shouting and taunting and weeping.
From Literature
“He was taunting us on social media,” Vega said.
From Los Angeles Times
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
