as in harasser
a person who causes repeated emotional pain, distress, or annoyance to another
avoided the hecklers who hung out on the street corner making threatening remarks to passersby
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Recent Examples of heckler
The outraged heckler with his face painted doesn’t represent most sports-watchers.
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Jacob Feldman,
Sportico.com,
11 May 2026
Yes, freedom of expression applies to hecklers, too.
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Editorial,
Boston Herald,
9 May 2026
Yes, freedom of expression applies to hecklers, too.
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Las Vegas Review-Journal,
Twin Cities,
7 May 2026
Cyndi Lauper didn’t hold back when a heckler interrupted her opening night in Las Vegas, firing back mid-show with an expletive-laced response that quickly drew cheers from the crowd.
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Kennedy French,
Variety,
25 Apr. 2026
See All Example Sentences for heckler
Jacob Feldman,
Sportico.com,
11 May 2026
Yes, freedom of expression applies to hecklers, too.
—
Editorial,
Boston Herald,
9 May 2026
Yes, freedom of expression applies to hecklers, too.
—
Las Vegas Review-Journal,
Twin Cities,
7 May 2026
Cyndi Lauper didn’t hold back when a heckler interrupted her opening night in Las Vegas, firing back mid-show with an expletive-laced response that quickly drew cheers from the crowd.
—
Kennedy French,
Variety,
25 Apr. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for heckler
Noun
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Still, the star did not name her harassers.
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Most harassers do not harass others in front of someone else.
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The series was meant to have a three-season arc, now cut short, despite a cliffhanger tease of what was to come at the end of season 1.
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They are all stuffed into selections from the adults-only section of a Spirit Halloween store and made to perform amateur strip teases for their fellow Islanders — all strapped to heart-rate monitors — to see who can raise whose heart rate the most.
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Red is immediately abducted, cut open in an ambulance, and injected with pain-magnifying drugs by his torturers, while Liz accidentally murders the mysterious man surveilling her next door.
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Aaron escapes his torturers, first by rooting himself in the town’s only movie theater open to Black people, and then by lying about his age and enlisting in the Navy at 16.
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So Jacob is now related to his tormentor.
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Crucial events morphed into massive set pieces, like Louis hunting down Claudia’s killers by setting their theater on fire, exploding the motorcycles of the vampires who fled the inferno, and eventually bursting out of a manhole to behead Claudia’s main tormenter.
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Hurd was seen fist-bumping another attacker moments after deputies intervened, Madden Ragland said.
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In practice, this means understanding which tools may be used against you, how audience perception can be manipulated, what sequence of actions attackers typically follow, and which methods are deployed at different stages of a campaign.
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“Heckler.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/heckler. Accessed 29 Jun. 2026.
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