Synonyms of taunting

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adjective

as in mocking

Synonyms & Similar Words

• mocking
• jeering
• ridiculing
• baiting
• heckling
• deriding
• derisive
• needling
• hassling
• sarcastic
• joking
• bantering
• bandying
• rallying
• contemptuous
• quipping
• fooling
• jesting
• razzing
• scornful
• ribbing
• kidding
• derisory
• quizzical
• funning
• disdainful
• joshing
• chaffing

taunting

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verb

present participle of taunt

as in teasing

to attack repeatedly with mean put-downs or insults

the principal reminded the student athletes that taunting their opponents was not showing good sportsmanship

Synonyms & Similar Words

• teasing
• mocking
• ridiculing
• baiting
• annoying
• heckling
• bothering
• torturing
• riding
• hassling
• hazing
• needling
• jeering
• irritating
• plaguing
• bullying
• goading
• picking on
• deriding
• troubling
• harassing
• tormenting
• pestering
• trying
• spiting
• badgering
• nagging
• gibing
• disturbing
• testing
• bugging
• aggravating
• irking
• nettling
• riling
• exasperating
• griping
• grating
• jibing
• itching
• vexing
• hounding
• narking
• ruffling
• browbeating
• persecuting
• discomforting
• rasping
• dogging
• terrorizing
• making game of
• agitating
• chafing
• perturbing
• fretting
• hectoring
• bedeviling
• galling
• piquing
• frosting
• peeving
• getting
• beleaguering
• harrying
• putting out
• hagriding
• aggrieving
• gnawing (at)
• burning (up)
• hacking (off)