Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- In a taunting manner; teasingly; with bitter and sarcastic words; jeeringly; scoffingly.
Wiktionary
- adv. In a taunting manner.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adv. In a taunting manner.
WordNet 3.0
- adv. in a playfully teasing manner
Examples
“Blue Bonnet spying her called tauntingly: "Campers below!”
““Gra-ndfather!” the same voice called tauntingly outside the gates.”
“Every dispute arising from our entangled neighborhood -- and these would be innumerable -- would be determined with an insolence and a cruelty far surpassing any thing which we have heretofore experienced; and at every manifestation of unwillingness on our part to submit, we should have the sword tauntingly thrown in the balance.”
The Continental Monthly, Vol. 2 No 4, October, 1862 Devoted To Literature And National Policy
“Gra-ndfather!" the same voice called tauntingly outside the gates.”
“Now "-- tauntingly --" will you wait here whilst I bring the proof? ”
“Ron tauntingly wonders how a political party could be so whiny after calling Obama a socialist and fascist -- and thinks that Obama's bully pulpit and sheer fiscal necessity mean that he will prevail "although it's unclear whether Eric Cantor and the Tea Party get that.”
“Peering down tauntingly from the mountaintop, the Celtics refuted every Lakers challenge.”
“While millions look for work, AT&T tauntingly dangles jobs like a schoolyard bully.”
The Huffington Post: Dave Saldana: Justice Dept. Sees Through AT&T's Jobs "Promise"
“There they will languish, tantalizingly, tauntingly out of reach, an object lesson to all those who fail to make their DVD and Blu-ray purchases in a timely manner.”
The Wall Street Journal: Disney's Movie Vault: Scarily Creating a Fantasia of Scarcity
““I saved something for you,” Julien said tauntingly.”
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Words to Whisper
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Adverbia
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Read some sniping and some informative commentary about a...full-drive, portentously, unlawfully, legally, heterogeneously, consumingly, clancularly, inconsolably, prepositionally, retrogressively, symptomatically, decrepitly and 2460 more...
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Anger Mismanagement
churlish, vendetta, retaliatory, bellicose, excoriate, enfant terrible, imperious, vitriolic, upbraid, umbrageous, lambaste, inveigh and 67 more...
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