- 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
Neither incidents involved taunting players from the opposing team, and both of those techs have reportedly been rescinded.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
Sean Duffy is even taunting Pete Buttigieg about it, in a bout of dreaded intra–transportation secretary violence.
From Slate ● May 5, 2026
And that unopened brick of air-dry clay that’s taunting you?
From MarketWatch ● Feb. 23, 2026
The vixen swiped at one of the coyotes from above, taunting him, and Pax snapped at the other’s flank.
From "Pax" by Sara Pennypacker
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
Antinoüs hath a tongue accustom’d much To tauntings, and promotes them in the rest.
From The Odyssey of Homer by Cowper, William
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 Fielding, Henry
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 Marsh, A.
At many bends of the Sweetwater they paused and made sorties; but the savages fell back, later to close in, sometimes under cover so near that their tauntings could be heard.
From The Covered Wagon by Hough, Emerson
