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
Dafoe says with an unmistakable raspy cackle over the phone.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 31, 2024
“We come in here and all of our heads can look in like this and collaborate,” she said, adding with a kidlike cackle, “Isn’t it fun?”
From New York Times ● May 2, 2024
Morfin let out a mad cackle of laughter.
From "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" by J.K. Rowling
The red-headed fairy cackles, “Your hard work didn’t pay off!”
From Slate ● Jul. 7, 2025
The biggest lesson he learned: “What does Chad want to do?” he dryly cackles, before interrupting himself.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 20, 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
Madame Violet cackles as she and the entire shop begin to fade away.
From "Amari and the Night Brothers" by B.B. Alston
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
His allergies were awful, the cows circling around him while he got uncomfortable and his mom cackled in their ATV.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 27, 2022
When I told her tickets cost 20 bucks, she actually cackled.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 5, 2022
Bobby cackled so loud that everyone turned and looked.
From "Everything Sad Is Untrue" by Daniel Nayeri
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
Squibb has played plenty of cackling grannies; even so, Ms. Sturak is her most unhinged.
From New York Times ● Apr. 11, 2024
Sometimes I found myself cackling on the verge of hysteria when I was stacking bottles of no-name brands of dishwashing liquid.
From "Proud" by Ibtihaj Muhammad
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