Taunting is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for TAUNTING in dictionary:

VERB:
• provoke or challenge (someone) with insulting remarks
• reproach (someone) with something in a contemptuous way
NOUN:
• the act of taunting
• a remark made in order to anger, wound, or provoke someone
• aggravation by deriding or mocking or criticizing
ADJECTIVE:
• goading
• abusing vocally; expressing contempt or ridicule
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• to challenge or reproach sarcastically
• a. & n. from Taunt, v.

Words related to TAUNTING

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Words that contain TAUNTING

tauntings10 tauntingly14

How to use TAUNTING in a sentence

• Over the shining barrel he saw only the taunting emptiness of the storm.
• A hundred candles danced and blinked before him like so many taunting eyes and turned him dizzy with a sickening nausea.
• They laughed at us when we tried to buy food, and were not above taunting us with being Missourians.
• Bloody Fellow, Cherokee chief, writes note taunting Sevier and Martin.
• The captives felt sure that it was intended to land them, in order that Argyll himself might have the pleasure of taunting them before putting them to death.
• Gunnar refuses to surrender it, and the fight begins, after some exchange of taunting words.
• Once more forgive me, my dearest creature, for my barbarous taunting in mine of the 5th! Yet I can hardly forgive myself.
• But before the dais the wave paused, since in it were those who could not forego the joy of taunting Lapo Cercamorte before killing him.
• The competition, too, for advertisements, was keen, and the editors were continually taunting each other with taking them for the duty alone.
• Her brother broke up the romance by taunting Mark who, with boyish bashfulness, avoided her after that.
• What taunting expressions were used on this occasion? 9.
• He fancied his bed surrounded by fiendish faces, grinning at his sufferings, and taunting his inability to summon power to disperse them.
• And you were wrong in taunting me with my defenceless condition, and in saying that I might be accused or put to death or boxed on the ears with impunity.
• With this taunting noisy crowd I had to walk on as if I enjoyed the demonstration.
• His world was now a narrow burning chamber, in which dwelt with him a taunting jeering torturing spirit of reminiscence.
• One day the woman and her son had been angrily taunting him in the presence of a neighbour.
• He openly laughed at them for the plight in which he found them, taunting them as cowards of the first water.
• All Christendom is now made familiar with it, and is sending forth a cry of indignant remonstrance and of taunting scorn.
• These were answered by bursts of taunting laughter, and mocking yells, while the rain of arrows continued.
• Somewhere in his mind a memory lurked, evasive, taunting him.
• Doyle was seldom at home, and when he was he had ceased to give her his taunting information.
• Quickly he tapped out a copy of the strange, taunting message.
• The men frequently called out from one to another, using taunting epithets.
• But the light seemed to be taunting her, now appearing, now disappearing, and suddenly going out altogether.
• A tax on tea caused the revolt of the thirteen Colonies, a taunting load of tennis-balls lost France to the Dauphin.
• But Sir Gawain met the herald ere he reached the king, and sent him back with taunting and bitter words.
• She died in coming to me to ask my forgiveness for the taunting words she had spoken at our last parting.
• At this point in the proceedings, Anuse laughed aloud in a derisive, taunting fashion, causing everyone on the panel to look at him in shocked silence.
• Though for that matter I might have some excuse even for taunting you.
• But nowhere that he could go was he free from those taunting voices.
• He rides up and down the valley, taunting us with his laugh.
• Ingmar sank down, and the man ran off, with a taunting laugh.

Similar words containing TAUNT without suffix ing

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