heckle
Example Sentences
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Holding up homemade cards as 'Silent Night' played in the background - emulating a scene from the film 'Love Actually' - Hearn expertly avoided being interrupted, despite Eubank Jr's attempts to heckle him.
From BBC • Nov. 13, 2025
“Tiger With Cubs” depicts a tigress nursing her young under pine trees as magpies heckle them.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 12, 2025
Even back in 2022, when Boebert and Greene presented as a Karen power duo out to heckle President Joe Biden, I was skeptical that their alliance would last long.
From Salon • Jul. 18, 2023
Now Israel's minister for police, Itamar Ben-Gvir was on hand to keep order as some 30,000 people took part in the annual event that he used to heckle as an "abomination".
From Reuters • Jun. 1, 2023
At this point, Perch started to heckle me.
From "Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing" by Ted Conover
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.