taunting
tawn ting
- n aggravation by deriding or mocking or criticizing
- v harass with persistent criticism or carping
- s abusing vocally; expressing contempt or ridicule
taunting shouts of `coward' and `sissy'
- The attack killed four al-Qaeda members but not al-Zawahiri, who appeared on videotape two weeks later, taunting President Bush and defiantly proclaiming himself alive.
- Moseley-Braun, the first black woman to become a senator, later accused Helms of taunting her in an elevator by whistling "Dixie.
- One victims kidney was even mailed to the police, along with a series of taunting notes penned by someone calling himself Jack the Ripper.