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To invite someone to engage in a contest

To insult or put down, especially in a spiteful way

To criticize, especially with insulting language

To taunt or annoy someone

To criticize or find fault with

To stir up feelings or emotions, typically that translate into action

To bring into a heightened emotional state

Mockery or taunts, or the act of mocking or taunting

Calls for someone to compete

Plural for a joke, typically a critical or unkind one

Plural for a disrespectful or scornfully abusive remark or act

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Verb

To invite someone to engage in a contest

throws down the gauntlet

issues a challenge to

calls someone's bluff

invites to debate

asks for trouble

starts something

Verb

To insult or put down, especially in a spiteful way

takes the piss out of

takes the mickey

pokes mullock at

makes jokes about

makes a monkey of

treats with contempt

gives a hard time

holds up to ridicule

makes a monkey out of

blows raspberries

pulls someone's leg

makes a fool of

pulls one's leg

treats contemptuously

holds in contempt

gives Bronx cheer

shouts disapproval

turns up one's nose

treats disrespectfully

casts aspersions on

pulls someone's chain

laughs out of court

shows contempt for

hits where one lives

holds up to shame

hurls insults at

tears to pieces

treats with disdain

gets on the nerves of

shouts catcalls at

gets in the hair of

does a number on

utters catcalls

plays a joke on

plays a practical joke on

has a joke with

gets a rise out of

takes a rise out of

takes a swipe at

says contemptuously

makes cutting remarks about

curls your lip at

turns your nose up at

tyrannizes over

plays a practical joke

puts someone on

exposes to ridicule

makes a game of

makes a laughing-stock

makes someone a laughing stock

gives offence to

raises your hackles

ruffles one's feathers

gives the cold shoulder

makes somebody's hackles rise

puts your back up

causes offence to

hurts somebody's feelings

steps on one's toes

cuts to the quick

does an injustice to

takes advantage of

steps on the toes of

lays a bad trip on

goes for jugular

gives no quarter

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“A thousand ways to insult and taunt him came to my mind, but I kept quiet.”

Verb

To criticize, especially with insulting language

inveighs against

cuts to the quick

does a number on

vituperates against

casts aspersions on

gives a black eye

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“If others foolishly wish to taunt him for his ignorance, his response will be, instead, somewhat paradoxically, to have what fun he can with theirs, having fully conceded his own.”

Verb

To taunt or annoy someone

gets under your skin

rubs up the wrong way

gets in your hair

gets on your nerves

gets your back up

runs up the wrong way

takes a rise out of

raises your hackles

gets across someone

hits where one lives

works into lather

gets a rise out of

gives someone the hump

sends into a rage

gets on one's nerves

rubs the wrong way

tries your patience

puts your back up

makes your blood boil

drives up the wall

gives someone grief

gives a hard time

gets on your wick

bends someone's ear

breathes down someone's neck

makes somebody's hackles rise

drives round the bend

makes someone see red

gets up someone's nose

ruffles one's feathers

gives a bad time

drives round the twist

gets your dander up

makes things hot for someone

makes it hot for someone

gives the business

pushes someon's buttons

drives to distraction

gets your hackles up

gives someone the pip

sticks in one's craw

sets one's teeth on edge

drives you up the wall

discombobulates

puts someone's nose out of joint

rattles someone's cage

preys on your mind

causes anxiety to

rattles one's cage

discriminates against

takes it out on

finds fault with

busts someone's balls

keeps complaining to

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Verb

To criticize or find fault with

remonstrates with

finds fault with

gives someone a bollocking

lets someone have it

gives a talking-to

hauls over the coals

lays down the law

reads the riot act

gives someone a caning

rakes over the coals

gives someone a row

gives someone a wigging

gives someone some stick

takes to the woodshed

gives someone a mouthful

raps over the knuckles

gives someone a dressing-down

gives someone an earful

gives someone a roasting

gives someone a rollicking

gives someone a telling-off

gives someone hell

puts on the mat

tears off a strip

gives someone a rating

gives someone what for

sends someone away with a flea in their ear

has someone on the carpet

slaps someone's wrist

gives the business

bites someone's head off

jumps down someone's throat

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Verb

To stir up feelings or emotions, typically that translate into action

fans the flames of

Verb

To bring into a heightened emotional state

Noun

Mockery or taunts, or the act of mocking or taunting

taking the mickey

pulling someone's chain

slaps in the face

backhanded compliments

terms of disparagement

backhanded compliment

superciliousness

slap in the face

misrepresentation

snappy comeback

black humour^UK

distorted representation

false impression

exaggerated drawing

exaggerated representation

distorted drawing

clowning around

poor substitute

contemptuousness

witty conversation

misappreciation

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“I phrased it as a sarcastic taunt, but I genuinely wanted to know the answer.”

Noun

Calls for someone to compete

Noun

Plural for a joke, typically a critical or unkind one

“The German mistook Ian's question as a playful taunt, one he was far too quick to respond to.”

Noun

Plural for a disrespectful or scornfully abusive remark or act

superciliousness

backhanded compliments

slaps in the face

kicks in the teeth

microaggression

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