catcalling

Definition of catcallingnext
present participle of catcall

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for catcalling
Verb
  • During the post-fight interviews, a frustrated Aspinall had lashed out inside the Octagon after the stoppage, swearing at the crowd for jeering him.
    Antonio Losada, MSNBC Newsweek, 26 Oct. 2025
  • Raging at the decision, the 29-year-old Medvedev sprinted across the court to remonstrate angrily with Allensworth and whipped up a jeering New York crowd.
    Manasi Pathak, Forbes.com, 28 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • Elon Musk lashed out at Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy in a series of insulting posts on his social media platform X on Tuesday, after Duffy suggested NASA may sideline SpaceX from its moon mission.
    Hadas Gold, CNN Money, 21 Oct. 2025
  • The extremists are insulting you every single day.
    Jordan King, MSNBC Newsweek, 18 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • But this heavy tide of content ridiculing any notion of his lasting importance to the American republic suggests a far different fate.
    Miles Klee, Rolling Stone, 21 Dec. 2025
  • By the 1830s, politicians had stopped ridiculing America’s growing canal system.
    Matthew Smith, The Conversation, 20 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Ricky Gervais has hosted the Golden Globes five times, making Hollywood sweat with his take-no-prisoners approach to jokes mocking showbiz.
    William Earl, Variety, 30 Dec. 2025
  • Now Sweeney, 75, is breaking his silence on a decades-long feud with Chevy Chase after Chase proposed Sweeney appear in an SNL sketch mocking the AIDS epidemic.
    Seth Abramovitch, HollywoodReporter, 30 Dec. 2025
Verb
  • This came after her previous comments deriding many accusers in the wake of the #MeToo movement.
    Lee Smith, CNN Money, 28 Dec. 2025
  • But not long after a fan Jerry-rigged a tool to get the sneakers down, social media was ablaze with accusations that the designer had given away a pair of fakes, as well as criticism deriding him as a one-trick pony.
    Ian Servantes, Footwear News, 11 Dec. 2025
Verb
  • Several reports over the last few weeks had the Broncos sniffing around at offensive additions, primarily at wide receiver.
    Sean Keeler, Denver Post, 8 Nov. 2025
  • The Ovechkin puck would likely garner a pretty penny, if not now, then sometime in the future, as no other active NHL player is sniffing around 700 career goals.
    Ryan Gaydos, FOXNews.com, 6 Nov. 2025
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“Catcalling.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/catcalling. Accessed 7 Jan. 2026.

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