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cackle

noun as in a loud laugh

verb as in laugh irritatingly

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If you don't know her, you're likely to know her famous cackle which has become her trademark.

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Those stereotypes might bring to mind images of black hats, broomsticks and cackling over cauldrons, common in much media.

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“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.

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

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

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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