cackle
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I cackle at the distance between perfection and utter collapse, but I also feel a pang of tenderness: I am moved by their effort.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 20, 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
This invective is delivered with a sneer, a wink, and finally a cackle of laughter.
From BBC ● Mar. 23, 2025
Uncle C’s cackle echoed in my ears, and I shivered.
From "Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky" by Kwame Mbalia
The red-headed fairy cackles, “Your hard work didn’t pay off!”
From Slate ● Jul. 7, 2025
With each taunt, the room filled with cackles from my teammates.
From Salon ● Sep. 22, 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
Hilariously, she cackles and says, “Have I changed?”
From New York Times ● Feb. 2, 2023
He laughed and laughed, his cackles bouncing off the walls, until finally he fell out of his chair.
From "Hollow City" by Ransom Riggs
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
When I told her tickets cost 20 bucks, she actually cackled.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 5, 2022
Unlike the rooster, the chickens were mostly quiet, except when they cackled to announce that an egg would soon be laid.
From "Tasting the Sky" by Ibtisam Barakat
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
And if you can be cackling laughing without a full set twirling in automation, that proves that the bones of the play are solid.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 12, 2025
Squibb has played plenty of cackling grannies; even so, Ms. Sturak is her most unhinged.
From New York Times ● Apr. 11, 2024
His mother and Eugenia seemed to truly get along, and they were already cackling together within the hour.
From "Anger Is a Gift" by Mark Oshiro
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