- present participle of taunt.
taunting
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Never mind their dozens of targeted social media posts and years of taunting.
From Salon ● Jun. 25, 2026
Owner Tara Zaman said they targeted the shop several times, "taking things" and "taunting" and "tormenting" her staff.
From BBC ● May 7, 2026
Sean Duffy is even taunting Pete Buttigieg about it, in a bout of dreaded intra–transportation secretary violence.
From Slate ● May 5, 2026
Crew chief Marc Davis said in a pool report that both players were “assessed technical fouls for their continual taunting of one another.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 22, 2026
Brother Lekan's words have been echoing inside me all day, still taunting me hours later.
From "Beasts of Prey" by Ayana Gray
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
Where, then, will be your tauntings and your vauntings, your boastings and your braggings?
From The History of the Life of the Late Mr Jonathan Wild the Great by Henry Fielding
The married state, is much like this, O'rewhelm'd with many crosses, Yet must be born, see how it is, With tauntings, toils, and losses.
From The Ten Pleasures of Marriage and the Second Part, The Confession of the New Married Couple by A. Marsh
It was with extreme regret, and frequently with uncontrollable indignation, that I endured the neglect of my husband and the tauntings of the profligate Lyttelton.
From Beaux and Belles of England Mrs. Mary Robinson, Written by Herself, With the lives of the Duchesses of Gordon and Devonshire by Mary Robinson
Gerda rose from the foam where she had been playing serenely impervious to the tauntings of Kay.
From Dangerous Ages by Dame Rose Macaulay
