What is "taunts"

Usage examples of "taunts".

She had soon learned to adopt an attitude of indifference to shield herself from the taunts of her schoolmates.

So our great dead chief must sleep--sleep while his murderer sings and taunts us with his freedom.

To the youngsters of the parish he was a target of their tricks and taunts, but to the believers of the word, he was deeply feared as they thought the devil and his emissaries of evil possessed him.

The fated monsters of his mind tortured Jeremiah with taunts, and, in the fit of his uncontrolled dementia, he lifted the kerosene lamp and threw it on the heap.

The woman took no notice of these taunts, but walked on, with the same expression of angry scorn, as if she heard nothing.