cackle

"His laugh was outrageously infectious. We all used to call it a cackle."

From BBC ● Oct. 2, 2026

“I’m dipping nuggets you’ve never heard of into sources you could never understand,” she declares bluntly, causing us to cackle out of sheer surprise.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 28, 2026

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

“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.

From Salon ● Sep. 6, 2025

Bellatrix, however, let out a cackle of triumphant laughter.

From "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" by J.K. Rowling

Manning’s press conference cackle was followed by the cackles of adults in the room, including reporters.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 17, 2026

The red-headed fairy cackles, “Your hard work didn’t pay off!”

From Slate ● Jul. 7, 2025

“Curb Your Enthusiasm” served up a symphony of social disaster over the course of 12 seasons and almost 24 years on HBO, wringing cackles and cringes from the misadventures of the serially inappropriate Larry David.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 4, 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

He ducked just in time to avoid a rotten green tomato to the head as the Rudes drove by in their old pickup, their cackles wafting behind.

From "Bone Gap" by Laura Ruby

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

And then, at Pansy’s most vulnerable moment, someone cackled, “Ha ha!”

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 9, 2025

They cackled at a video showing a troop of mischievous baboons ripping up ruling party election posters with the face of the president on them.

From Seattle Times ● Aug. 18, 2023

Someone mumbled, “Tyler, she’s got a pencil case, duck!” and someone else cackled.

From "Breadcrumbs" by Anne Ursu

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

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

He was most famous for voicing creatures, including the cackling Salacious Crumb from “Return of the Jedi,” as well as the musical, cuddly mogwai and malevolent, reptilian title monsters in “Gremlins” and “Gremlins 2.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 3, 2024

And Sir Grummore began cackling in a tuneless alto, like thousands of wild geese on the Wash. “Hush! Hush!” cried Sir Palomides.

From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White