TAUNTING Synonyms

• abusing vocally; expressing contempt or ridicule

• exhibiting lack of respect; rude and discourteous

• neither feeling nor showing respect

• showing your contempt by derision

• abusing vocally; expressing contempt or ridicule

• abusing vocally; expressing contempt or ridicule

• playfully vexing (especially by ridicule)

• exposing human folly to ridicule

• showing your contempt by derision

• expressing extreme contempt

• expressive of contempt

• the act of harassing someone playfully or maliciously (especially by ridicule); provoking someone with persistent annoyances

• playful vexation

• the act of removing tangles from you hair with a comb

• playfully vexing (especially by ridicule)

• arousing sexual desire without intending to satisfy it

• causing irritation or annoyance

• treat or speak of with contempt

• language or behavior intended to mock or humiliate

• the act of deriding or treating with contempt

• subject to laughter or ridicule

• someone who is regarded as contemptible

• aggravation by deriding or mocking or criticizing

• harass with persistent criticism or carping

• anything that serves as an enticement

• something used to lure fish or other animals into danger so they can be trapped or killed

• harass with persistent criticism or carping

• lure, entice, or entrap with bait

• attack with dogs or set dogs upon

• the vessel that contains the seeds of a plant (not the seeds themselves)

• lean white flesh of important North Atlantic food fish; usually baked or poached

• major food fish of Arctic and cold-temperate waters

• collecting the charges upon delivery

• payable by the recipient on delivery

• fool or hoax

• harass with persistent criticism or carping

• a small piece of cloth

• a week at British universities during which side-shows and processions of floats are organized to raise money for charities

• music with a syncopated melody (usually for the piano)

• newspaper with half-size pages

• a boisterous practical joke (especially by college students)

• treat cruelly

• cause annoyance in; disturb, especially by minor irritations

• play in ragtime

• harass with persistent criticism or carping

• censure severely or angrily

• break into lumps before sorting

• a large gathering of people intended to arouse enthusiasm

• the feat of mustering strength for a renewed effort

• a marked recovery of strength or spirits during an illness

• an automobile race run over public roads

• (sports) an unbroken sequence of several successive strokes

• gather

• call to arms; of military personnel

• gather or bring together

• return to a former condition

• harass with persistent criticism or carping

• a cry or noise made to express displeasure or contempt

• harass with persistent criticism or carping

• a journey in a vehicle (usually an automobile)

• a mechanical device that you ride for amusement or excitement

• sit and travel on the back of animal, usually while controlling its motions

• be carried or travel on or in a vehicle

• continue undisturbed and without interference

• move like a floating object

• harass with persistent criticism or carping

• be sustained or supported or borne

• have certain properties when driven

• be contingent on

• lie moored or anchored

• sit on and control a vehicle

• climb up on the body

• ride over, along, or through

• keep partially engaged by slightly depressing a pedal with the foot

• copulate with

• harass with persistent criticism or carping