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

When I saw this image of the would-be Poot matriarch for the first time the other day, my first reaction was a hard cackle.

From Salon ● Jun. 29, 2025

At one point, Ohtani snapped his head back with a high-pitched cackle, giggling with a wide smile planted on his face.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2024

“We come in here and all of our heads can look in like this and collaborate,” she said, adding with a kidlike cackle, “Isn’t it fun?”

From New York Times ● May 2, 2024

Can you imagine Jesse James without a gun, or a hen that didn’t cackle?

From "The Autobiography of Malcolm X" by Alex Malcolm X;Hailey

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

“Not me getting mistaken for @Beyonce at the #USOpen tonight then trending on Twitter as the internet cackles over the mistaken identity,” Cox wrote on Instagram.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 30, 2022

McKinney plays a misanthrope who lurks in an office district, using pinching fingers and the trick of perspective to “crush” businessmen’s heads as he cackles gleefully.

From New York Times ● May 24, 2022

His thumping footsteps and cackles faded as he ran to another part of the ship.

From "The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin)" by James Dashner

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

We played board games, cackled at old movies and talked.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 23, 2023

Around her, the theater crowd guffawed and cackled as three microraptors that had been adorned with flowers and fruits cavorted in ridiculous circles across the stage.

From "Dactyl Hill Squad" by Daniel José Older

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

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

Mark Dodson, who voiced strange puppet creatures in “Star Wars,” including Salacious B. Crumb, the cackling monkey-lizard pet of Jabba the Hutt, and “Gremlins” films, died on Saturday.

From New York Times ● Mar. 3, 2024

I thought I was imagining it when I heard the cackling, but then I looked at Amaka—and sure enough, she was laughing.

From "Purple Hibiscus" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie