During her husband's frequent interrogations by the SB in the 1980s, she was known to openly taunt officers who came to pick him up.

Filey had cared too much for his own skin to ever openly taunt the marquess.

She is an atheist, but expresses a feeling of respect for people with religious beliefs, unlike House, who openly and mercilessly taunts religious people.

He wished she had not openly taunted him with getting into trouble and needing her always to get him out.

Maxentius' support continued to weaken: at chariot races on 27 October, the crowd openly taunted Maxentius, shouting that Constantine was invincible.

But by 1994, he was a West Coast loyalist, openly taunting the Notorious B.I.G., a New York rapper.

Knowing these officers were unlikely to arrest him on anything trivial, he openly taunted them by flouting traffic laws and succeeded in losing his pursuers on more than one occasion.

The group was humorous and irreverent in interviews and press releases, they and affiliates openly taunted webmasters through website defacements.

Its voice was smooth, assured, and only just short of openly taunting.