Rude
Taunting
Taunting adjective - Abusing vocally; expressing contempt or ridicule.
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Rude and taunting are semantically related in scornful topic. Sometimes you can use "Rude" instead an adjective "Taunting".
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- Gunther and his cronies are especially rude to the wulves, and eventually Danny, taunting them with specist slurs and trying to goad them into fighting so that they get expelled.
Source: Fantastic Racism / Literature -
Funnily enough, Iziol doesn't seem to consider hurling destructive gravitic energies at people to be unacceptably rude as long as they attack first—and taunting them into attacking first counts, albeit only with the aforementioned mild language.
Source: Fragile Flower - At the end of the book, he's rude to Leah when she tries to talk to him about his feelings for Bella (granted she wasn't exactly gentle, but given that she too had been dumped by someone she loved, his taunting of her was pretty callus) and then abandons his father to go hide as a wolf for awhile.
Source: Designated Hero / Literature
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