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Meanings of taunt in anglès
Sinònims
Examples for "mock"
Examples for "mock"
1
He's part of his school's debate team, mock trial and student government.
2
In my strength you deceived me; in my weakness you mock me.
3
Because starting at 1300, we're dealing with a mock mass casualty situation.
4
A mock funeral for planet Earth is taking place in Nelson today.
5
The mock-up was exposed to the public in a Russian air base.
1
So far, though, it's mainly drawn alarm and ridicule on social media.
2
Then did the attendant on the tower speak of her in ridicule.
3
The grotesqueness of such adornment found frequent ridicule in prose and verse.
4
The laugh was turned on him; there was ceaseless ridicule and taunting.
5
Boccaccio had made them the subject of ridicule in his popular stories.
1
The sun had set; an owl began to hoot in the wood.
2
But the film is, of course, a hoot from beginning to end.
3
A moment later they heard the single, unexpected hoot of an owl.
4
Nhlanhla Nene's upcoming mid-term budget speech is going to be a hoot.
5
Olympos gave a great hoot of laughter, and so did many others.
1
The crowds felt free to cheer, jeer, and offer questions and comments.
2
No offence is intended; the men jeer out of mere harmless devilment.
3
The shrill jeer of a newsboy broke in upon his pathetic speech.
4
The omnipresent small boys and soldiers jeer, and some tear the banners.
5
They began to jeer and insult him more than the other boys.
1
Ms Byrne also made a good-humoured jibe at her relieved family members.
2
Except that didn't jibe with what he'd seen of her so far.
3
Fuelled by that jibe, Arsenal took the lead in the eighth minute.
4
That should jibe with what the hospital receptionist had no doubt reported.
5
But the best of the lot at a jibe or a joke
1
He was made to flout it and go his own sheep-headed way.
2
We flout the businessman, but without him there would be no poets.
3
I will make thee yet a lady, whom none shall dare flout.
4
Why do you flout one who longs to show you his devotion?
5
Russia and China flout political borders, just look at Crimea and Hong Kong.
1
It has become a shared reflex to deride and belittle such achievements.
2
But there was no one there to see or deride their grief.
3
We should not be too quick to deride this as a delusion.
4
For, to deride Jesus Christ would manifest an inexcusable want of respectability.
5
Besides, when he wishes to deride a city, he calls it grass-grown.
1
Here in his native village there were none to gibe and sneer.
2
At the gibe business the German is, perhaps, better than the Briton.
3
I ignored the gibe, but felt a twinge at the real possibility.
4
The king's gibe stung, and he resolved not to wait for Dragonstone.
5
I do not gibe back at a woman who presently will die.
Usage of taunt in anglès
1
The one will taunt, the other defy; one aggresses, the other retaliates.
2
The taunt had long since lost its sting; so I replied, meekly:
3
The taunt was quite lost on him; he was calmly regarding Natalie.
4
The very children on the streets would taunt my children about it.
5
Not able to resist an opening taunt, she added, A fillet knife?
6
This is not the taunt of enemies, but the warning of friends.
7
The cruel taunt of cowardice she had flung at Roddy was explained.
8
Not for the reason that Scotland fans will taunt him on Saturday.
9
Her proud spirit shrinks beneath the cruel taunt he hurls at her.
10
So the killer likes to taunt his victims before he grabs them.
11
This may only have been the groundless taunt of an envious rival.
12
She paused, and hurled the taunt she knew would hurt him most.
13
The Wizard smiled contemptuously at her words, and added taunt to taunt.
14
Don't look back to them, princess, for you only taunt their hopes.
15
Then it had brought the broken skeleton back here like a taunt.
16
Russ's tone was sarcastic, but I ignored the good-natured taunt and continued.
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Taunt through the time
Taunt across language varieties
United Kingdom
Common
United States of America
Common