(v. t.) To repress or subdue the courage of; to check by fear of danger; to cow; to intimidate; to dishearten.
Example Sentences:
(1) But to endure a cut of £100m just after becoming the mayor and a further £23m this year has been daunting.
(2) Despite campaign pledges from both leading parties that, if elected, they will try to cushion the blow, the measures add amount to a daunting legislative programme from which Greece’s new prime minister – whatever his name – will find it difficult, if not impossible, to deviate.
(3) They rightly perceive that there is a better chance that retailers can get it to them there.” James Daunt, chief executive of the bookstore chain Waterstones , said its online deliveries were being delayed by “one or two days” as a result of problems at its courier service, Yodel, which has been overwhelmed with demand from the retailers it serves.
(4) It's daunting, but St Louis have the bats and thus the best chance of any team in the NL to wipe out LA, who, despite losing Matt Kemp for the season, can hit a little bit as well.
(5) "In the past that kind of thing has been quite daunting.
(6) With pressure mounting in the US for the launch of a full-blooded inquiry into News Corporation under the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA), the daunting consequences of such a move are becoming evident.
(7) Here's a summary of where things stand: • A Senate hearing on the crisis of child immigration to the United States laid bare a daunting tangle of overlapping bureaucracies charged with handling each child's case.
(8) Resembling a billhook, with Foule Crag its wickedly curved tip, this final flourish looks daunting but can be skirted to one side, up awkward slabs.
(9) After a successful convention they came back thrilled by the speeches and daunted by the prospects .
(10) It is very important now to continue that good vibe.” Spurs have already played the four clubs ahead of them in the table, as well as the four directly below, and now embark on a sequence of fixtures that, on paper at least, would appear to be less daunting.
(11) It is a story that is rarely told in large part because of the technical difficulties — the physics and maths underlying the technique can appear daunting.
(12) The planning, establishment, financing and general organization of a Diabetic Screening Service within a District Health Authority can be a daunting task if not handled correctly.
(13) There is, however, no mention of the service for which the co-operative has now become famous – as the alleged headquarters of a mafia-style criminal gang that through a network of links with politicians and businessmen appears to hold a daunting influence over the Italian capital.
(14) Hurley stated, "Protracted fever of obscure cause remains one of the more daunting clinical challenges facing the physician.
(15) Roy Hodgson oversaw England's return to the top of Group H but still left the national stadium frustrated after admitting a comfortable victory had been "overshadowed" by a harsh booking for Danny Welbeck that will rule him out of Tuesday's daunting game in Ukraine.
(16) Meanwhile for victims and defendants, the court process is slow, inefficient and daunting .
(17) Keith Forsyth had trouble picking the lock, which was daunting.
(18) That may well be a tongue-in-cheek comment, but Musk's determination to tackle daunting technological challenges is undoubted.
(19) "At the moment things look daunting, but everyone said that the opening up of television in America to cable would result in a race to the lowest common denominator and just look at the list of wonderful programmes that has brought us.
(20) It’s a big ask.” West Brom, who remain seven points above the bottom three but face a daunting set of fixtures that includes the top three and Liverpool, had designated this fixture Jeff Astle Day, in memory of the striker who died from chronic traumatic encephalopathy in 2002.
Taunt
Definition:
(a.) Very high or tall; as, a ship with taunt masts.
(v. t.) To reproach with severe or insulting words; to revile; to upbraid; to jeer at; to flout.
(n.) Upbraiding language; bitter or sarcastic reproach; insulting invective.
Example Sentences:
(1) Brown made mincemeat of a succession of shadow chancellors, taunting them with the contrast between the strong growth and healthy public finances under Labour and the humiliation visited upon John Major's government on Black Wednesday.
(2) In his keynote speech in Manchester , Ed Miliband taunted the prime minister for lying awake at night worrying not about the future of the United Kingdom but rather the United Kingdom Independence party.
(3) Like her bolder aunt Marine, the timid Maréchal-Le Pen complained that she suffered greatly from taunts at school that her grandad was a “fascist”.
(4) Moreover, are schoolchildren thoughtlessly taunting each other with slang such as: "That's just straight"?
(5) So it will have been a wrench for Jez, and his embattled entourage, to have to “cave in”, as the Guardian’s report put it, and suspend the MP from the party after David Cameron (who really should leave the rough stuff to the rough end of the trade) had taunted him at PMQs for not acting sooner when the Guido Fawkes blog republished her ugly comments and the Mail on Sunday got out its trumpet.
(6) The first task of the new government was to allay those fears, to reassure the 27 that when Farage turned up at the European parliamen t after the referendum, like a drunk taunting an ex-wife at a cocktail party, he did not speak for Britain.
(7) One detainee I spoke to told me of racist taunting and abuse by guards, and boredom.
(8) I’ve got no doubt that some of these people in Abbott’s government hope that something goes wrong domestically – that they can taunt a Muslim into doing something,” he said.
(9) Gerrard had been mercilessly taunted again by Chelsea’s supporters and he had played as if determined to turn the volume down.
(10) From violence to verbal taunts, abusive dating behavior is pervasive among America’s adolescents, according to a new, federally funded survey.
(11) The internet activist group Anonymous has responded to Twitter taunts from the Ku Klux Klan by taking over its US Twitter account.
(12) The colossal tarpaulin roof had actually been opened and closed regularly throughout the day, as if taunting those fans who could not attend the rescheduled game, as the locals sought to dry the surface so there was an irony this game kicked off with autumnal sunshine pouring through the concourse under the canopy.
(13) Although much of the abuse centred on the taunts about the children's disabilities, police failed to recognise it as a hate crime rather than simple antisocial behaviour, which would have made it a far higher priority.
(14) But more serious trouble flared at the site of a burned convenience store where dozens of youths, some with covered faces, ripped up street signs and taunted police.
(15) She said she refuses to let anyone inside the room, and sweeps it for cameras and “booby traps.” She said she is taunted daily about the videos, which are still online.
(16) If that pattern is repeated, Labour will be taunted over 2008 in the elections of 2020, 2025 and 2030.
(17) The video appeared to show vulnerable residents being pinned down, slapped, doused in water and taunted.
(18) Convoys that try to get out of here must run the gauntlet of taunting Christian mobs.
(19) He was one of the greatest defenders of his era, and one of the most taunted.
(20) So the decision by Ed Miliband to face down Tory taunts of being the party of welfare and launch Labour's conference last weekend with a pledge to ban the hated cut is a welcome recognition of its human costs.