He suspected she was taunting him.
She met his taunting gaze.
His friend Slowacki answered them in some taunting verses, and this led to a quarrel between the poets.
He couldn't imagine any childhood taunting that would have caused him to crawl into the earth through a cold, wet, and black hole.
She had a feeling the doc would need his own pain meds if he kept taunting the two tense soldiers.