tauntingly

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  1. In a taunting manner; teasingly; with bitter and sarcastic words; jeeringly; scoffingly. And thus most tauntingly she chaft Against poor silly Lot. Wanton Wife of Bath (Child's Ballads, VIII. 154).

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  • He swore to the words which I used when trying to wrest the desk from the man who had stolen it; and when the Queen's counsel asked him, tauntingly, who had set him on bringing his new story there at the eleventh hour, he answered, equally to the astonishment of his questioner, and of me Muster Locke, hisself What! —  Alton Locke, Tailor And Poet
  • He didn't mention that the remainder of the shirt had been tied, tauntingly, to the antenna of his squad car. —  Hoot
  • "You have your boy, use him as you were wont to do," said Margarethe tauntingly, as if trading on a secret meaning that Iris couldn't be privy to. —  Maguire, Gregory - Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister - UC [.html].htm
  • Without conscious thought she eased her grip on him, drew her palm slowly, tauntingly, up his length, then searched for the buttons at his waist. —  This is a work of fiction
  • After they had finished the whipping, Boss said, tauntingly: “Now I am buying you and selling you—I want you to know that I never shall sell you while my head and yours is hot.” I was trembling from head to foot, for I was powerless to do anything for her. —  Thirty Years a Slave
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