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View definitions for taunting

taunting

adjective as in jeering

Strong match

Weak matches

adjective as in teasing

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Example Sentences

It mirrored an experience last year when teenagers, again taunting me, rode off shouting “Timmy is going to run us over.”

From BBC

But most on the right just gave it up, happy to accept the results and move on to taunting those who lost fair and square.

From Salon

The first was against linebacker Oluwafemi Oladejo for flashing the team’s fourth-down hand signal toward the Nebraska sideline, which was considered taunting.

But as the boos from the sellout crowd of 87,453 serenaded the Cornhuskers, an unsportsmanlike conduct penalty after the play on Oladejo for taunting gave Nebraska a first down.

And he barely touched on the root cause of the incident, a professional athlete overtly taunting the opposing crowd.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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