taunt
verb (used with object)
to reproach in a sarcastic, insulting, or jeering manner; mock.
Example Sentences
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“What’s the matter? You got sensitive skin?” another recruit says tauntingly.
From Salon ● Oct. 10, 2025
This also fueled a heated personal squabble with Chris Christie, in an early manifestation of the candidates’ deep contempt for this fast-talking newcomer—who, tauntingly, brought up the Christie-Obama “hug” that followed Superstorm Sandy.
From Slate ● Aug. 25, 2023
Onstage, Lane tauntingly said: “I’m going to do all the jokes Harvey Weinstein wanted me to cut.”
From New York Times ● Jul. 10, 2022
He used a cast of children as his muse to make a dream seem real, tauntingly real, for a little more than two hours.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 4, 2022
He didn’t mention that the remainder of the shirt had been tied, tauntingly, to the antenna of his squad car.
From "Hoot" by Carl Hiaasen
