catcalled

past tense of catcall

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for catcalled
Verb
  • No woman, under any circumstance, deserves to be insulted or humiliated.
    Megan Cartwright, MSNBC Newsweek, 5 Nov. 2025
  • Folklorist Thomas Keightley tells the tale of a kobold named Hödeken who was insulted by a kitchen boy who kept spraying water at him.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 27 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • McIlroy has faced the brunt of the insults from spectators, who also jeered and yelled at his wife throughout the weekend.
    Chandelis Duster, NPR, 28 Sep. 2025
  • Hundreds of protestors jeered Netanyahu from the street outside the UN secretariat.
    Kim Hjelmgaard, USA Today, 26 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Fear of being outed or being suspected or being made fun of, ridiculed, losing your standing.
    Abbey White, HollywoodReporter, 10 Nov. 2025
  • Democrats ridiculed Vance’s performance.
    Daniel Bush, MSNBC Newsweek, 10 Nov. 2025
Verb
  • On the political right, the term is often condemned or derided.
    Marni Rose McFall, MSNBC Newsweek, 5 Nov. 2025
  • Cuomo mocks Mamdani’s thin resume, just as Republicans derided Obama’s qualifications.
    Ben Adler, USA Today, 2 Nov. 2025
Verb
  • In another photo obtained by TMZ, Matthews also mocked Perry’s headline-making photo of her kissing the ground following her return to Earth.
    Jason Pham, StyleCaster, 10 Nov. 2025
  • Elites stirred up a now familiar moral panic about commerce corrupting letters and mocked Grub Street even as its writers built the first modern freelance economy and mass-print culture.
    Deni Ellis Béchard, Scientific American, 8 Nov. 2025
Verb
  • Moehrig would later produce a huge third down stop for a loss of five yards as the Packers sniffed the end zone in the fourth quarter.
    Mike Kaye, Charlotte Observer, 2 Nov. 2025
  • The game may not have even sniffed extra innings without the game from Shohei Ohtani.
    Ryan Gaydos, FOXNews.com, 28 Oct. 2025
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“Catcalled.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/catcalled. Accessed 14 Nov. 2025.

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