noun
definition
A scornful or mocking remark; a jeer or mockery
verb
definition
To make fun of (someone); to goad (a person) into responding, often in an aggressive manner.
Examples of taunt in a Sentence
Fury flooded her at the taunt.
Cyber bullying involves the use of technology to virtually taunt the victims.
These fans are labeled 'griefers' by some, because they love to taunt a fan base or because they love to see how far they can take the Internet 'whisper' game.
Once finished the fighters may then taunt each other, but no blows may be struck in anger.
It is very important in these situations, that the winning team do not taunt the losing team in any way.
Rivalries are bitter, and many of the girls spitefully taunt each other, whilst others yearn to escape.
She described the experience as exhiliarating and terrifying when older brother Michael would taunt her about the Jaws shark tank and the Psycho house.
There a young relation of Abdarrahman was so roused by the taunt that the death of his kinsman was unavenged, that he killed Ibn Othal near the mosque of Damascus.
You shall become an execration, a horror, a curse, and a taunt.
Many chants not only are used to inspire a sense of camaraderie and tradition, but they are also used to diss, taunt, and put down other sororities.
On these grounds the adversaries of Demosthenes, in after-days, used absurdly to taunt him with a traitorous or barbarian ancestry.
They taunt each other whenever they have the chance and oftentimes want to anger the other but don't intend to follow through.
In a fine bit of realism we are told how Gaal observed the approaching foe and was told by Zebul, "You see the shadow of the hills as men," and as they drew nearer Zebul's ironical remark became a taunt, "Where is now thy mouth ?
In other words, hold your hair taunt with one hand, while using the other to maneuver the head of the blow dryer so that the air blows down the shaft, no up.
If you find yourself frustrated by the muses that taunt you to continue, write a poem about your pain and suffering.
As A continues to taunt the girls, she reveals an awareness of the "Jenna" secret.
And the playground taunt was simply to operate at your level in the hope that you might understand what is being said to you.
In the conflict between her sense of what was morally just and her sense of duty to the state she laid herself open to the scoffing taunt of Frederick of Prussia, who said that in_the first partition of Poland elle pleurait et prenait toujours.
Grasp the tape between your thumb and index finger and hold it taunt across the fullest part of your bust.
As with your breast measurement, you're going to want to hold the measuring tape taunt across your waist, and yes, it's okay to pull in your stomach.
On the same side of the bed, repeat the same step, pulling the pad taunt.
Pull the pad taunt with one hand and pull the mattress up with the other hand, swiftly tucking the pad beneath.
This is most apparent during the entrance movies when your grappler is making his way to ring -- you can see their eyes blinking and their mouths moving as they taunt the crowd.
If you love showing off a firm and taunt figure, then a Brazilian tiniest bikini might just be the swimsuit for you!
Demons used Mary's face to taunt the boys and Dean had to go back in time to try and prevent Mary from making a deal with Azazel that would lead to her death.
But the king of Prussia's taunt is deprived of its sting by the almost incredible candour of her own words to Kaunitz, that if she was to lose her reputation before God and man for respecting the rights of others it must not be for a small advantage - if, in fact, Austria was to share in the plunder of Poland, she was to be consoled for the distress caused to her feelings by the magnitude of her share of the booty.
A's taunts build throughout the first season, including a letter that breaks up Aria's parents, a taunt on her cell phone that drives away Ezra Fitz (Ian Harding), Rosewood's newest English teacher and Aria's would-be lover.
No English statesman probably has ever been, at different times in his career, so able an advocate of absolutely contradictory policies, and his opponents were not slow to taunt him with quotations from his earlier speeches.
This congruity of the miracle with divine truth and grace is the answer to Matthew Arnold's taunt about turning a pen into a pen-wiper or Huxley's about a centaur trotting down Regent Street.