Jeered at

Usage examples of taunted.

Macy McKee taunted, for Lee was famed for his ingenuity in avoiding exercise.

The doctor had told him not to try to force it, but that blank door taunted him.

She'd been humiliated, stripped naked and roughly fondled, taunted with the prospect of rape, and yet they had stopped short of rape—for a reason.

Ballybran's ranges tempted, taunted, tantalized, hiding wealth produced by titanic forces boiling from the molten core of the planet: a wealth created by the technical needs of an ever-expanding galactic population and found on an ancient world with no other resources to commend it.

Somehow, he could choose another tower, despite the eccentricities, and doggedly climb, while on either side other towers taunted him with diminished length.

The mere thought of how he would be teased and taunted now was unbearable.

And if, considering how I would be taunted by Iswy, I'd have the courage to take a hot bath, were one offered.

Four men were good-naturedly attempting to raise a massive fish onto the spit braces, urging each other to greater effort while the onlooking women taunted them for weakness.

She, who had taunted him about thinking, not doing, was now furious with him.

For she was determined to surprise this Master Domick who teased and taunted and didn't like her having nine fire lizards.

Further, Master Domick had taunted her with telling the truth once before.

Never again would he be taunted by the other apprentices, boys much younger than he who climbed through the ranks in the guild step by tedious step.

Bruenor taunted, blocking the blow with his shield and launching a counter at the man's knees.

Shaking off the dull ache of that slap, Wulfgar taunted it with laughter.

Panting, her face alight with both excitement and triumph, Mary taunted him, "Can't catch me, can't catch me.