Words similar to taunts

Example sentences for: taunts

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This, she argues, has led these judges to discount the types of employment discrimination--unfair promotion practice, workplace taunts, etc.--the law was originally intended to check.
The manipulative sexpot Angela, who taunts her friend Jane with the idea of seducing her dad, acts chiefly out of a terror of appearing ordinary.
Conclusion: Trying to distinguish harassment from everyday schoolyard taunts is a clumsy but worthwhile process.
But the largest group of gay taunts can be classified as the ped- group, all words inspired by pederasty: pederaj, pederash, pederishka, pederin, pederko, pedal, pedalo, petsa, pechurka, pepos, pedos, pepi, pedikir (a pun on pedicure ), peder, and its facetiously French-sounding inversions derpé and depré.
The movie, with its alliterative abuse, name-calling, taunts, shouting and yelling, threats, scolding, and nasty sarcasm is much livelier and much scarier for children than the book.