cackle
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Presiding over the baddies, Jared Leto’s blue-skinned, caped, literally boneheaded man-demon Skeletor is meant to be the fiercest of antagonists, but even his own henchmen find his signature evil cackle to be a bit laughable.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 4, 2026
This show made me cry regularly, sometimes tears of joy, and also cackle aplenty.
From Salon ● Jun. 28, 2025
His career paths are hunter, forager or watchtower guard, but he seems more like the product of a progressive Montessori school, even with his dad urging him to cackle at shredded deer intestines.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 19, 2025
This invective is delivered with a sneer, a wink, and finally a cackle of laughter.
From BBC ● Mar. 23, 2025
Then there’s a cackle that echoes so menacingly, Scoob could swear it sends a shudder through the treetops.
From "Clean Getaway" by Nic Stone
The red-headed fairy cackles, “Your hard work didn’t pay off!”
From Slate ● Jul. 7, 2025
“Curb Your Enthusiasm” served up a symphony of social disaster over the course of 12 seasons and almost 24 years on HBO, wringing cackles and cringes from the misadventures of the serially inappropriate Larry David.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 4, 2024
All week I’d reveled in the cackles of leaf monkeys, hoots of gibbons, and barks of macaques, plus choruses of birds and frogs—all backed by the hums and whines of insects.
From National Geographic ● Jan. 23, 2024
"The House will be in order," she said again amid the cackles.
From Salon ● May 25, 2023
As if to accentuate their cackles, the donkey let out two lungs full of vociferous braying.
From "Summer of the Mariposas" by Guadalupe García McCall
A troupe of local performers enacted boxing and wrestling matches as the crowd cackled.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 29, 2026
I laid on the couch and cackled like an idiot while my friends took no prisoners.
From Slate ● Jun. 26, 2025
As the people with microphones and notebooks pushed and shoved in a hot and muggy hallway--”We don’t air-condition the corridors in this county,” cackled one old observer--it suddenly became apparent.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 13, 2025
And they cackled with glee watching the drama in Georgia.
From Salon ● Feb. 16, 2024
‘The Dead Marshes, yes, yes: that is their name,’ he cackled.
From "The Two Towers" by J. R. R. Tolkien
I can practically hear those two cackling over their macchiatos.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 7, 2026
Those stereotypes might bring to mind images of black hats, broomsticks and cackling over cauldrons, common in much media.
From BBC ● Oct. 30, 2025
Their giant, phony smiles reminded me of dolphins circling their prey and their mean laughter is blended into the sound of cackling birds.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 1, 2025
These fearsome carnivores, known for their splotchy fur and cackling “laughter,” form complicated social networks in which high-ranking females hold sway over males and other, less dominant females.
From Science Magazine ● Mar. 29, 2024
The tone of their voices and the cackling laughter didn’t sound like talk of family.
From "Between Shades of Gray" by Ruta Sepetys
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