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
He pauses: “It was ancestral spirits, whatever you want to call it,” adding with a mischievous cackle, “But not voodoo!”
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 6, 2025
When I saw this image of the would-be Poot matriarch for the first time the other day, my first reaction was a hard cackle.
From Salon ● Jun. 29, 2025
I cackle with rage and suck in breath.
From "Grendel" by John Gardner
The red-headed fairy cackles, “Your hard work didn’t pay off!”
From Slate ● Jul. 7, 2025
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
“I loved you truly,” she sings, deadpan, then almost cackles the next line, “You gotta laugh at the stupidity.”
From New York Times ● Jul. 4, 2023
“Not me getting mistaken for @Beyonce at the #USOpen tonight then trending on Twitter as the internet cackles over the mistaken identity,” Cox wrote on Instagram.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 30, 2022
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
And they cackled with glee watching the drama in Georgia.
From Salon ● Feb. 16, 2024
Castillo, who mentored Then and right-hander Prelander Berrora spring training, cackled in delight at the interaction.
From Seattle Times ● May 8, 2023
“His brother the rooster cackled, ‘You can’t do that.
From "Stella by Starlight" by Sharon M. Draper
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
In a memorable scene, she careens through town, shouting and cackling, dragging a tree behind her truck, which she sends flying through the glass front of the association headquarters.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 5, 2024
Squibb has played plenty of cackling grannies; even so, Ms. Sturak is her most unhinged.
From New York Times ● Apr. 11, 2024
It was cackling and throaty and enthusiastic, like Aunty Ifeomas.
From "Purple Hibiscus" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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