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Definition of Taunted
1. taunt [v] - See also: taunt
Lexicographical Neighbors of Taunted
Literary usage of Taunted
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Reports of State Trials: New Series... 1820 to [1858]...by John Macdonell, Great Britain State Trials Committee, John Edward Power Wallis by John Macdonell, Great Britain State Trials Committee, John Edward Power Wallis (1896)
"I was taunted with being false to tny country in my counsels. ... I have been
taunted by the press, an 1 it has tried to smother me with ridicule, ..."
2. The Dictionary of National Biography by Sidney Lee (1908)
"of them, however, Henry de Bray broc [qv] ' that the offence remained unavenged,
she was captured, ill-treated by the soldiers, and taunted the apostle by ..."
3. The Life and Times of Joseph Gould: Struggles of the Early Canadian Settlers by W. H. Higgins (1887)
"... dissuade Mackenzie from his plans —taunted with cowardice—Remonstrances
unheeded—Nothing left for him but join his friends—Arrival at Montgomery's—State ..."
4. The Right Hon. Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield, K. G., and His Times by Alexander Charles Ewald (1882)
"The hon. and learned member for Dublin also taunted the hon. and learned member
for Exeter (Sir W. Follett) with travelling out of the record of the present ..."
5. The Historical Writings of John Fiske by John Fiske (1902)
"The illustrations drawn from American affairs exasperated the Spanish colonists,
and they taunted Las Casas. He was only a vain theorizer, they said; ..."
6. The Monthly Magazine by Richard Phillips (1799)
"... »id ,tsof beginning an epic poem on the been taunted at by the bigots of she „t.
... taunted ..."
7. Abridgment of the Debates of Congress, from 1789 to 1856: From Gales and by United States Congress, Thomas Hart Benton (1859)
"¿taunted Infantry Bal. bio them to make that appearance. General Ashley, with
his mounted men, traverses the continent in safety ; goes to the Buenaventura, ..."
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