0 past simple and past participle of taunt
1 to intentionally annoy and upset someone by making unkind remarks to them, laughing unkindly, etc.:
The other kids used to taunt him in the playground because he was fat and wore glasses.
The youngest in the group was taunted mercilessly.
Some of the boys singled him out, laughing at him and taunting him.
Opposing fans taunted him with chants and signs declaring him a drug cheat.
Unless completely at home with it, he/she sounds artificial and affected and usually ends up being ridiculed or taunted.
When is an audience taunted or when made thoroughly unsettled in mind?
I deplore that he was taunted with it.
We have been taunted with restricting the output of coal.
I remember that we were taunted long before we had been in office for four months.
