heckle

“Tiger With Cubs” depicts a tigress nursing her young under pine trees as magpies heckle them.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 12, 2025

The Glaswegian looked so discombobulated by the heckle that another audience member asked him if he was okay.

From BBC ● Feb. 14, 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

“But what if I want to heckle Nick?”

From "Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda" by Becky Albertalli

“Your job as a bench warmer is to come up with the heckles against the other team. I took pride in writing insults to hurl at other 15-year-olds,” Wood recalled in a recent Zoom interview.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 14, 2024

"If someone heckles me, I can heckle them back... always politely though."

From BBC ● Jul. 8, 2023

Of course, hecklers could submit their heckles via email or interview but not heckle directly at our duly elected president.

From Washington Post ● Feb. 10, 2023

His speech was interrupted repeatedly by heckles and jeers from opposition leadership, who at times chanted “weak.”

From Seattle Times ● Dec. 29, 2022

To his left, formed up at right angles, were the representative detachments of the Egyptian army, the 11th Soudanese, with their red heckles in their fezzes, in the front line.

From Khartoum Campaign, 1898 or the Re-Conquest of the Soudan by Bennet Burleigh

A recent video showed Marc Screeton, from Manchester, being heckled as he bypassed the line, saying: "Imagine queuing on a mountain? No chance."

From BBC ● Aug. 24, 2026

In other footage verified by AFP, a reporter with Zee TV was heckled while broadcasting live from a protest in Mumbai.

From Barron's ● Aug. 6, 2026

A woman heckled the mayor just as he was about to speak and accused city leadership of ignoring concerns of Muslim and Palestinian communities.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 21, 2026

While the Met Police chief spoke, he was heckled by bystanders, who shouted "shame on you" and "you've failed", and called for his resignation.

From BBC ● Apr. 29, 2026

Not long before Henrietta’s first exam, TeLinde presented his argument about carcinoma in situ to a major meeting of pathologists in Washington, D.C., and the audience heckled him off the stage.

From "The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks" by Rebecca Skloot

In an age of seemingly nonstop spam, that act of rebellion can feel deeply satisfying, like heckling a telemarketer who interrupted dinner.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 28, 2026

“These people are crazy, I’m telling you. We’re lucky we have a country with people like this,” he said, over audible heckling about the Epstein files.

From Salon ● Feb. 24, 2026

One federal agent saw the patrollers, turned up his music, and began heckling the group as he rode in.

From Slate ● Oct. 27, 2025

He even managed to get a rise out of mild-mannered Presiding Officer Alison Johnstone, who recently kicked him out of the chamber for heckling.

From BBC ● Sep. 19, 2025

"Don't listen to him. He's just heckling you."

From "The Shakespeare Stealer" by Gary L. Blackwood