I. verb
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He couldn't forget how they had taunted him about his appearance.
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She went on taunting him until he lost his temper.
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The older boys taunted Chris and called him a girl.
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When I didn't want to fight he would taunt me repeatedly. "Coward,'' he would say, "coward, coward, coward....''
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Now the telephone had acquired a personality, sat on the shelf so smug, taunting her with its silence.
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Of course he wasn't, an inner voice taunted.
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Or maybe, as she'd taunted earlier, his actions were governed by boredom.
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She was held in jail overnight, and she alleges in her lawsuit that guards taunted her with ethnic slurs.
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They taunt me and beat me.
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They were accosted by three white youths who taunted and then attacked them.
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You can blast your buddies and taunt them verbally at the same time.
II. noun
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Black players have to endure endless taunts.
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He wears a bike helmet - even though it brings taunts from his peers.
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Did the taunts and rejection of women make him evil or was it just a part of his makeup?
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Henri watched him go, trying to calm himself down, distressed at how easily he had succumbed to Richmann's taunts.
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The first Phoenix King had time to think of the daemons' taunts.
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The four subjects of his taunts, Trow maintains, had to silence Marlowe because of what he knew.
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The other two, second and third sisters, teased me too, but their taunts held no malice.
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To be the hired help is to be helpless in the face of taunts and insults.
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Was this a recrimination, or a taunt ?
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We had to endure racist and sexist taunts.