Sentence examples for tauntingly from inspiring English sources

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tauntingly

adverb

In a taunting manner.

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They continue to live, as I do, in marginalised, confined areas such as Pembury estate in Hackney – while luxurious complexes like Pembury Circus are built tauntingly next door.

Mr Paska tauntingly advised them to "win an election", noting they could then "do whatever you want".

The house she was forced to flee in the Dora district, occupied now by hostile Sunni neighbours, stands tauntingly close.

Manifested in tauntingly ad hominem attacks of the type we've seen courtesy of "Jihadi John" (via his victims for extra effect), extremism is as provocative as it gets.

Lakeview Terrace plays tauntingly with ideas about race in America, but Trouble the Water shows how destructively those ideas affect millions: it reveals the depths of the scars in the American system and makes you gasp at the enormity of the task awaiting the Obama regime.

His last few records - 2000's raging break-up album Ecstasy, 2003's The Raven, another tauntingly aggravating double-album, adapted from Edgar Allen Poe, and that Metallica record - were not farewells, so much as fuck-offs.

He stopped attending classes (one student tauntingly said that he sounded "like a Norwegian") and was consequently suspended.

"Why don't you come upstairs and see?" the voice said, tauntingly.

Eastwood has become tauntingly tough-minded: "You're enjoying this, aren't you?" he seems to be saying.

But this time, as the digital clumps break up and reform, the truth tauntingly escapes our grasp.

It starts effectively enough, with an homage to "Network" 's galvanizing "I'm mad as hell" rant, as McAvoy, a blandly uncontroversial cable big shot whom everyone tauntingly calls Leno, is trapped on a journalism-school panel.

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