heckle
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As she makes her way up the stairs, McHenry gives the middle finger and blows kisses to the crowd as some people heckle and throw towels at her.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 29, 2026
“Tiger With Cubs” depicts a tigress nursing her young under pine trees as magpies heckle them.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 12, 2025
Passersby who witnessed this altercation began to heckle the police, demanding they take the handcuffs off Smith.
From Salon ● May 13, 2025
Arizona and Arizona State fans once used the term to heckle him, but the taunts had the opposite of their intended effect.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 20, 2025
“But what if I want to heckle Nick?”
From "Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda" by Becky Albertalli
As has become customary, the hearing was interrupted by protesters bursting into heckles; Rubio quipped that at least he gets bilingual demonstrators.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 15, 2025
His comments were met with mixture of heckles and cheers,
From BBC ● Apr. 28, 2024
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
Lots of girls have no latent heckles and prickles to match his villany.—There's my brother come back to breakfast from a round.
From Lord Ormont and His Aminta — Complete by George Meredith
He gets heckled a lot, even amid ostensibly friendly crowds.
From Slate ● Oct. 23, 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
He once heckled Anne Sexton at a poetry reading.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 31, 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
I tried to defend the play and I was heckled down.
From "Black Boy" by Richard Wright
Ralph Kaplowitz, a member of the 1946 Knicks, recalled opposing fans heckling Jewish players: “Abe, throw it to Abe.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 2026
“Why should we have to move because these men around us can’t behave and are heckling and harassing me. No, we’re going back. In hindsight, I wish we would have left.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 29, 2026
I was not heckling or mocking, but what followed was immediate — and instructive.
From Salon ● Dec. 21, 2025
One federal agent saw the patrollers, turned up his music, and began heckling the group as he rode in.
From Slate ● Oct. 27, 2025
Unlike basketball, football, soccer, there’s not supposed to be any shouting, chattering, or heckling.
From "Black Brother, Black Brother" by Jewell Parker Rhodes
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