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

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

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

From BBC ● Feb. 14, 2025

After the press conference ended, they continued to follow and heckle De Niro.

From Salon ● May 29, 2024

When he told them to leave the pitch, they did so quite cheerfully and went to sit in the stands to heckle everyone else.

From "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" by J.K. Rowling

Emotions have run high, there has been jubilation and hugs from winners, some tears from losing candidates, and even a few angry heckles.

From BBC ● May 8, 2026

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

Earlier, when Alabama heard some inappropriate heckles from the Missouri student section — this happened a week after Miles’s arrest — Oats tried to scold the wrong people.

From Washington Post ● Mar. 1, 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 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

It was as secretary of state for culture, media and sport that Burnham was heckled at a memorial service marking the 20th anniversary of the Hillsborough disaster.

From BBC ● May 14, 2026

Elsewhere on Thursday, angry protesters jeered and heckled Sir Keir Starmer when he visited Golders Green to meet Jewish volunteer organisations and first responders on Thursday.

From BBC ● Apr. 30, 2026

Ducks heckled the swan, but a swan only notices what it wishes to.

From "Black Swan Green" by David Mitchell

Within minutes of the young man in Kasenyi sending out his note, a crowd had gathered around the four volunteers, heckling them and shouting insults.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 16, 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

More than a few of the National Guard troops, police officers and Homeland Security officers those young Latino activists were heckling have Latino surnames on their uniforms, when they show any identification at all.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 13, 2025

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

From "The Shakespeare Stealer" by Gary L. Blackwood