cackle

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

The men heard a cackle in their headsets as the radio signal to Mission Control faltered and then failed.

From BBC ● Aug. 8, 2025

This show made me cry regularly, sometimes tears of joy, and also cackle aplenty.

From Salon ● Jun. 28, 2025

My family is gone, but the voices cackle loudly.

From "The Manifestor Prophecy" by Angie Thomas

The potent Met chorus captured the shrieking cackles of the witches, the horror of the courtiers after Duncan’s murder, and the despair of the exiles fleeing Macbeth’s tyranny.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 24, 2026

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

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

Alone in the village, all is quiet except for the muffled grunts of pigs and cackles of chicken.

From "First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers" by Loung Ung

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

His allergies were awful, the cows circling around him while he got uncomfortable and his mom cackled in their ATV.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 27, 2022

Hanako and Akira both laughed, but Akira positively cackled, because they could hear their grandfather loudly singing a silly song about fresh snow, fresh snow, it goes where it goes, where does it go?

From "A Place to Belong" by Cynthia Kadohata

Many plays and musicals are supposed to draw chuckles, but theatergoers today are cackling like they’re at a comedy show.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 9, 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

Among his notable original characters were Caballero; Sammy Maudlin, the overly effusive, overemotional host of a variety talk show; and most memorably, Count Floyd, the howling, cackling, frustrated vampiric host of “Monster Chiller Horror Theatre.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 2, 2024

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

Beloved choked on the lemonade he’d just poured for himself, and Malachite threw a tea towel at Whisper, who dodged it, still cackling.

From "Pet" by Akwaeke Emezi