Taunt

Don't taunt him. He's liable to fight back eventually.

The boy continued to taunt his younger brother.

They constantly taunt and deride others.

VVith ſcoffes and ſcornes, and contumelious taunts, / In open Market-place produc't they me, / To be a publique ſpectacle to all: / Here, ſayd they, is the Terror of the French, / The Scar-Crovv that affrights our Children ſo.

The attacks and the failure to catch the killer created an atmosphere of fear and dismay throughout Yorkshire, and provoked grim taunts to the police at Leeds United football matches such as “Ripper 10, Police nil”

the great ships, for want of ſufficient masts, will lose the advantages the taunt masts would procure