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Definition of Tauntingly
1. Adverb. In a playfully teasing manner. "`You hate things to be out of order, don't you?' she said teasingly"
Definition of Tauntingly
1. adv. In a taunting manner.
Definition of Tauntingly
1. Adverb. In a taunting manner. ¹
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Definition of Tauntingly
1. [adv]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Tauntingly
Literary usage of Tauntingly
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Demos in Council: Or 'Bijah in Pandemonium: Being a Sweep of the Lyre by William Sullivan (1799)
"... is fretful and fore ; While their jeers, and their jibes, they fo tauntingly
dafk. ... tauntingly ..."
2. Jane Eyre: An Autobiography by Charlotte Brontë (1850)
"... and conscience, turned tyrant, held passion by the throat, told her, tauntingly,
she had yet but dipped her dainty foot in the slough, and swore that ..."
3. The History of England from the Accession of James II. by Thomas Babington Macaulay Macaulay, Samuel Austin Allibone (1875)
"Those who tauntingly reminded Fenwick that he had supported the h:ll which
attainted Monmouth might perhaps themselves be tauntingly reminded, ..."
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