taunt
Example Sentences
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The residents cheer and taunt and follow from a safe distance.
From Slate • Feb. 11, 2026
Then, Anthropic unveiled Super Bowl ads that taunt rival OpenAI.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 6, 2026
Guadagnino makes Hank look so shady that it feels like a taunt: We’re dumb if we trust Hank and doubly dumb if he’s innocent.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 9, 2025
Remember the collective removal of headwear to taunt the cap-less Patrick Cantlay.
From BBC • Sep. 8, 2025
“Myma is still in New York, her native habitat. No doubt she is trying to taunt the police into arresting her in some demonstration at this very moment.”
From "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole
Vocabulary lists containing taunt
List 4
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The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
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