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Example sentences for: taunts

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It draws sidelong glances and playground taunts, and it may give the adopted child an identity crisis.
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.
Américo Paredes cites a stanza from a corrido (ballad) the Mexican soldiers sang after the Battle of Puebla (celebrated on Cinco de Mayo) that taunts the vanquished French soldiers with the following words:
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.
True, Ronald Reagan won on a supply-side platform--but one suspects he would have won on almost any platform, and that the taunts of "voodoo economics" actually cost him some votes.