taunt

He let Congress take the heat while projecting strength to his base -- and taunting Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer when the fight was over.

“He was taunting us on social media,” Vega said.

“The party girl for the party,” they dubbed her, a taunt that blared from billboards around town.

All of this was surrounded by a bleak, treeless landscape of mud—while clearly visible in the distance, like a taunt, wealthy mine owners lived in grand houses on leafy lanes.

The gang flapped and squawked and taunted the robot, luring him away from the jail room.