Thesaurus
Synonyms and Antonyms of taunting
- the principal reminded the student athletes that taunting their opponents was not showing good sportsmanship
deriding, gibing (or jibing), jeering, mocking, ridiculing
annoying, bothering, bugging, burning (up), chafing, fretting, frosting, galling, getting, gnawing (at), grating, griping, hacking (off), hagriding, irking, irritating, itching, nagging, narking [British], nettling, peeving, pestering, piquing, putting out, rasping, riling, ruffling, spiting, troubling, vexing
aggravating, exasperating, goading, testing, trying
aggrieving, agitating, bedeviling, beleaguering, discomforting, disturbing, perturbing
browbeating, bullying, hectoring
harassing, harrying, persecuting, plaguing, terrorizing, tormenting, torturing
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