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hissed

verb as in make buzzing sound; ridicule

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At the Hollywood Bowl, we hissed at the Baroness, booed at the Nazis and shot off confetti poppers when Maria got her first kiss.

“Don’t shout at me,” hissed a new voice.

Malevolent hissed, and her whole body shook so hard Jack almost tumbled off.

Though I could not fight them, I yowled so ferociously that the courtroom crowd—traitors, all of them!—hissed and scattered.

But almost at once he hissed slightly, so he wasn’t dead at all.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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