- present participle of taunt.
taunting
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Rather than try to flee, the larger speedboat began circling the inflatable, taunting the four Civil Guard officers aboard.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 23, 2026
It's said that he built the causeway as a bridge to Scotland, in order to fight another giant who was taunting him.
From BBC ● Aug. 18, 2026
Never mind their dozens of targeted social media posts and years of taunting.
From Salon ● Jun. 25, 2026
Neither incidents involved taunting players from the opposing team, and both of those techs have reportedly been rescinded.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 23, 2026
Even though they outnumbered us, they were enjoying the game of taunting us too much to make a stand.
From "The Glass Castle" by Jeannette Walls
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
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
Antinoüs hath a tongue accustom’d much To tauntings, and promotes them in the rest.
From The Odyssey of Homer by William Cowper
"Such tauntings are but a childish barter of words."
From The President A novel by Alfred Henry Lewis
Gerda rose from the foam where she had been playing serenely impervious to the tauntings of Kay.
From Dangerous Ages by Dame Rose Macaulay
