cackle

“The sound of her humiliating cackle still haunts me,” Morticia tells her daughter, recounting the experience of her own mom, Hester, reading one of her earlier manuscripts and shaming her for it.

The men heard a cackle in their headsets as the radio signal to Mission Control faltered and then failed.

He pauses: “It was ancestral spirits, whatever you want to call it,” adding with a mischievous cackle, “But not voodoo!”

The day before the tour, DeSantis cackled over the conditions awaiting detainees in the camp located about 45 miles west of Miami amid swamps inhabited by pythons and alligators.

When I saw this image of the would-be Poot matriarch for the first time the other day, my first reaction was a hard cackle.