taunt

Object

• police: He also occasionally taunts the police and these scenes are funny, because Connors does the taunting in a really gentlemanly and polite fashion.
• crowd: Martin taunts the crowd " Are we going all the way?
• man: It's like The Shining directed by Chris Morris as the voice of a young girl taunts a man locked in a darkened room.

Converse of object

• endure: He lasted 6 hours on the cross, enduring the savage taunts of his disillusioned former followers.
• shout: Anyway, this lot got to the end of the street, shouted a few incomprehensible taunts at me, then wandered off.
• suffer: This lad may have suffered playground taunts for being a shorty.
• face: The groups had already faced taunts from yobs at the event before Matthew was attacked.
• ignore: She was vulnerable, but she could ignore the taunts, and often, as with the Iron Lady, turned them to advantage.

Adjective modifier

• homophobic: The London election event was brought to an abrupt end after the Islamic invaders shouted down candidates with homophobic taunts.
• racist: Lou's racist taunts make her run from the rec room.
• cruel: And time away from home meant a delay in defending herself from Robert's increasingly cruel taunts.
• racial: For those that whisper, utter, shout or chant racial taunts.
• more: No more taunts on my " intellect, " no more menaces of grating public shows!

Modifying Another Word

• even: She's even taunted by the black kids for being black.
• not: It is very important in these situations, that the winning team do not taunt the losing team in any way.
• then: Once finished the fighters may then taunt each other, but no blows may be struck in anger.
• also: In addition, she also taunted Sora to forget his memories of Kairi and become more & more obsessed with Namine.
• constantly: Constantly taunted by Frank Burke for lack of masculinity.
• spitefully: Rivalries are bitter, and many of the girls spitefully taunt each other, whilst others yearn to escape.

Noun used with modifier

• playground: And the playground taunt was simply to operate at your level in the hope that you might understand what is being said to you.