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taunting
(encz) | taunting,posmívá se Zdeněk Brož |
Taunting
(gcide) | Taunting \Taunt"ing\,
a. & n. from Taunt, v.
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Every kind of insolent and taunting reflection.
--Burke.
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Taunting
(gcide) | Taunt \Taunt\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Taunted; p. pr. & vb. n.
Taunting.] [Earlier, to tease; probably fr. OF. tanter to
tempt, to try, for tenter. See Tempt.]
To reproach with severe or insulting words; to revile; to
upbraid; to jeer at; to flout.
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When I had at my pleasure taunted her. --Shak.
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Syn: To deride; ridicule; mock; jeer; flout; revile. See
Deride.
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taunting
(wn) | taunting
adj 1: abusing vocally; expressing contempt or ridicule;
"derisive laughter"; "a jeering crowd"; "her mocking
smile"; "taunting shouts of `coward' and `sissy'" [syn:
derisive, gibelike, jeering, mocking, taunting]
n 1: aggravation by deriding or mocking or criticizing [syn:
twit, taunt, taunting] |
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taunting
(encz) | taunting,posmívá se Zdeněk Brož |
tauntingly
(encz) | tauntingly,škádlivě adv: Zdeněk Brož |
Tauntingly
(gcide) | Tauntingly \Taunt"ing*ly\, adv.
In a taunting manner.
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taunting
(wn) | taunting
adj 1: abusing vocally; expressing contempt or ridicule;
"derisive laughter"; "a jeering crowd"; "her mocking
smile"; "taunting shouts of `coward' and `sissy'" [syn:
derisive, gibelike, jeering, mocking, taunting]
n 1: aggravation by deriding or mocking or criticizing [syn:
twit, taunt, taunting] |
tauntingly
(wn) | tauntingly
adv 1: in a playfully teasing manner; "`You hate things to be
out of order, don't you?' she said teasingly" [syn:
tauntingly, teasingly] |
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