Definition of Taunted

1. Verb. (past of taunt) ¹

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Definition of Taunted

1. taunt [v] - See also: taunt

Lexicographical Neighbors of Taunted

tau leptons
tau neutrino
tau neutrinos
tau proteins
taube
taubes
taught
taught away
taughten
taughtened
taughtening
taughtens
tauhou
tauld
taunt
taunted (current term)
taunter
taunters
taunting
tauntingly
tauntings
tauntress
tauntresses
taunts
tauon
tauonic
tauons
taupe
taupes
taupie

Literary usage of Taunted

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Reports of State Trials: New Series... 1820 to [1858]...by John Macdonell, Great Britain State Trials Committee, John Edward Power Wallis by John Macdonell, Great Britain State Trials Committee, John Edward Power Wallis (1896)
"I was taunted with being false to tny country in my counsels. ... I have been taunted by the press, an 1 it has tried to smother me with ridicule, ..."

2. The Dictionary of National Biography by Sidney Lee (1908)
"of them, however, Henry de Bray broc [qv] ' that the offence remained unavenged, she was captured, ill-treated by the soldiers, and taunted the apostle by ..."

3. The Life and Times of Joseph Gould: Struggles of the Early Canadian Settlers by W. H. Higgins (1887)
"... dissuade Mackenzie from his plans —taunted with cowardice—Remonstrances unheeded—Nothing left for him but join his friends—Arrival at Montgomery's—State ..."

4. The Right Hon. Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield, K. G., and His Times by Alexander Charles Ewald (1882)
"The hon. and learned member for Dublin also taunted the hon. and learned member for Exeter (Sir W. Follett) with travelling out of the record of the present ..."

5. The Historical Writings of John Fiske by John Fiske (1902)
"The illustrations drawn from American affairs exasperated the Spanish colonists, and they taunted Las Casas. He was only a vain theorizer, they said; ..."

6. The Monthly Magazine by Richard Phillips (1799)
"... »id ,tsof beginning an epic poem on the been taunted at by the bigots of she „t. ... taunted ..."

7. Abridgment of the Debates of Congress, from 1789 to 1856: From Gales and by United States Congress, Thomas Hart Benton (1859)
"¿taunted Infantry Bal. bio them to make that appearance. General Ashley, with his mounted men, traverses the continent in safety ; goes to the Buenaventura, ..."

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