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catcalled

verb

past tense of catcall

as in insulted

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Jewish and non-Jewish writers have been insulted and doxxed, have been called terrorists and antisemitic.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 17 July 2026
Outside, the guards were often genial and chatty; inside, visitors were treated as objects of suspicion, barked at and insulted.

— Jonathan Blitzer, New Yorker, 13 July 2026

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The crowd exploded with every tackle and shot, jeered at every foul whistled against El Tri.

— Hannah Keyser, CNN Money, 30 June 2026
When early goals by both teams were denied by offside calls, the aggrieved fans jeered and whistled — the equivalent of Chiefs fans booing pass interference against their guy.

— Blair Kerkhoff, Kansas City Star, 17 June 2026

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Even the president’s jokes about his bad jokes fell flat, and he was widely ridiculed for the comedy routine afterward.

— Brian Stelter, CNN Money, 25 July 2026
Dundon’s move was widely criticized — and ridiculed — after the Hurricanes on Thursday posted a picture of the engravings on social media.

— Chuck Schilken, Los Angeles Times, 10 July 2026

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Though much derided in advance, this expansion of the rubric did mean that Cabo Verde swam into our ken.

— Anthony Lane, New Yorker, 17 July 2026
In the latest salvo in the ongoing public negotiations between Major League Baseball and its players’ union, interim MLBPA chief Bruce Meyer derided a recent advertising campaign for the league’s salary cap proposal.

— Andy McCullough, New York Times, 14 July 2026

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Instead of treating her and Povich’s pregnancy struggles with care, the pair were widely mocked in the media and on late-night shows, including on In Living Color, which had premiered on Fox in 1990.

— Victoria Edel, PEOPLE, 22 July 2026
Fans rightfully mocked the dancing cars mounted on robot arms that played during an inexplicable diversion on Universal Studios Hollywood’s Studio Tour.

— Robert Niles, Oc Register, 21 July 2026

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