I am reading the book " A higher loyalty" by James Comey. One of the chapter describes how he was taunted in the school. I am not sure what exactly he meant saying the following " One of my first days on the fifth-grade playground, I was surrounded by a group of boys who taunted me and my looks". My looks in the dictionary appears to be – appearance , better suggestions ?
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I agree with your understanding - "looks" is often used to describe someone's physical appearance.
The only thing that makes your example sentence a little odd is that it says:
It doesn't seem gramatically correct to me because your appearance is something abstract, so how can it be taunted?
If I was writing this sentence I would have said:
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("Mock" means to ridicule, or laugh at, and you can laugh at the way someone looks; but "taunt" means to incite anger, to persecute, or provoke - and your looks are not going to get angry)