Taunt is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for TAUNT in dictionary:

VERB:
• to goad or provoke
• provoke or challenge (someone) with insulting remarks
• reproach (someone) with something in a contemptuous way
• tease with jeers
• To reproach with severe or insulting words; to revile; to upbraid; to jeer at; to flout.
• harass with persistent criticism or carping
NOUN:
• a remark made in order to anger, wound, or provoke someone
• Upbraiding language; bitter or sarcastic reproach; insulting invective.
• aggravation by deriding or mocking or criticizing
• jeering remark
ADJECTIVE:
• Very high or tall; as, a ship with taunt masts.
• (of the mast or masts of a sailing vessel) unusually tall
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• to challenge or reproach sarcastically

Words related to TAUNT

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Words that contain TAUNT

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How to use TAUNT in a sentence

• While I was in this alarming condition the grandmother appeared, and began to taunt me with the utmost malignity.
• To taunt them with their incapacity, and to regard it as the cause of poverty, is nothing else than a piece of blind insolence.
• And do you dare taunt me with the name of that man whose friend you admit that I was, and whose assassin you confess yourself? XVI.
• This was just his own opinion, and he would have suffered tortures if the wits of Seal Cove had been able to taunt him about his clever sister having bought her own fish.
• The women and children stayed in the houses, and though some of the men appeared in sight they did not, as on former occasions, enter our camp and taunt us.
• It was a short document, written with ferocious directness, as a kind of public challenge or taunt to the man whom he wrongly deemed to be the author of his misfortunes.
• I saw the red lips moving and read a dreadful horror in the widely opened eyes, in those eyes like pools of mystery to taunt the thirsty soul.
• You have no call to taunt me with that vice which I despise above all others.
• If our people had never had to pay for an army, they might sit down quietly under the taunt of wanting experience.
• The taunt was so unrelated to what had been happening in her soul that she hardly understood it.
• Kit Carson was in the crowd, and his patriotic spirit kindled at the taunt.
• They are directed on no account to urge him to jump off the rocks, or to taunt him for not doing so, but to let him act as he pleases.
• I found it was their daily taunt against Christianity that it was the light of one people and had left all others to die in the dark.
• There was a bitter taunt in them that none knew better than she how to interpret.
• Culvera had sent for him to gloat over him, to taunt him.
• Who dares to object that it was not ultimately successful? Such a taunt has never been weighed in the balance against the glories of Thermopylae.
• Was it not a covert taunt at my wealth and his own nothingness in the house? This may never have occurred to him, but I thought it had, and once more I left him.
• Nay, the Mediterranean will taunt us in the very next war.
• Or, if he could taunt them into killing him at once he would be spared all the terrible agony which they were in the habit of inflicting on their victims.
• Very strange it was to hear him, how he contrived to make those words a personal taunt.
• But let me say, with no desire to taunt you, I never murder even the girls I want to.
• The easy manner of the time gave the courtiers license to taunt her.
• And that was, that if we succeeded in capturing him, we were to bring him before her, that she might, in his helplessness, taunt him for his perfidy towards her.
• You spoke it in the way of a taunt, and as if the Department justified them and condemned me.
• You taunt me, too, with having no means of earning my own living.
• It was, of course, monstrous arrogance for Caligula to boast that he could make his horse a consul if he chose, but the taunt contained a measure of truth.
• This may only have been the groundless taunt of an envious rival.
• When she became the mother of a child, the highest honor that could come to a Semitic woman, she could not resist the temptation to taunt Sarah.
• The cold politeness of manner with which he had taken my taunt, his perfect self-mastery, filled me with wonder.
• In the prolonged debate upon the admission of Kansas, Douglas took part only as some taunt or challenge brought him to his feet.

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