taunting
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After jawing with Oregon players, the junior linebacker was seen taunting the Oregon sideline and celebrating on his way back to USC’s side of the field.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 30, 2026
"So, I think for fans, 'Don't bite the hand that feeds you'. If people keep taunting him and don't want him to win, he might end up just walking away and not bothering anymore."
From BBC ● Sep. 21, 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
Natalie asked, and it was almost like she was taunting Emma and apologizing, all at once.
From "The Strangers" by Margaret Peterson Haddix
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
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 James Whitcomb Riley
Gerda rose from the foam where she had been playing serenely impervious to the tauntings of Kay.
From Dangerous Ages by Dame Rose Macaulay
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
