TAUNTINGLY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does tauntingly mean? 

• TAUNTINGLY (adverb)
  The adverb TAUNTINGLY has 1 sense:

1. in a playfully teasing manner

  Familiarity information: TAUNTINGLY used as an adverb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• TAUNTINGLY (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

In a playfully teasing manner

Synonyms:

tauntingly; teasingly

Context example:

'You hate things to be out of order, don't you?' she said teasingly

 Context examples 

"Yes, that he will!" exclaimed Mary, tauntingly.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

I wrestled with my own resolution: I wanted to be weak that I might avoid the awful passage of further suffering I saw laid out for me; and Conscience, turned tyrant, held Passion by the throat, told her tauntingly, she had yet but dipped her dainty foot in the slough, and swore that with that arm of iron he would thrust her down to unsounded depths of agony.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)