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
If you don't know her, you're likely to know her famous cackle which has become her trademark.
From BBC ● Nov. 13, 2025
This show made me cry regularly, sometimes tears of joy, and also cackle aplenty.
From Salon ● Jun. 28, 2025
The barely audible cackle of candle kept me company in a stark warehouse room, a setting that felt illicit while the small flame’s fragility reminded me that I needed to make a decision.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 6, 2025
A slow grin turned into his high-pitched cackle.
From "The Golden Goblet" by Eloise Jarvis McGraw
The red-headed fairy cackles, “Your hard work didn’t pay off!”
From Slate ● Jul. 7, 2025
With each taunt, the room filled with cackles from my teammates.
From Salon ● Sep. 22, 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
As we turn the corner into his office, the cheekily self-proclaimed “horror master” cackles at the sight that greets all who dare to enter: a life-size cardboard cut-out of “Believe”-era Justin Bieber.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 10, 2023
The creature threw his head back in a laugh then, letting his airy cackles echo off the trees around them.
From "Beasts of Prey" by Ayana Gray
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
We played board games, cackled at old movies and talked.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 23, 2023
When I told her tickets cost 20 bucks, she actually cackled.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 5, 2022
Around her, the theater crowd guffawed and cackled as three microraptors that had been adorned with flowers and fruits cavorted in ridiculous circles across the stage.
From "Dactyl Hill Squad" by Daniel José Older
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
And she’s cackling like a hen on a nest.
From "Girls Like Us" by Gail Giles
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