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
One heckler tried to interrupt speakers but was spoken over by them and largely ignored.
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Ryan Oehrli, Charlotte Observer, 29 Sep. 2025
While touring the special, Edelman dealt with hecklers and haters, but mostly audience members who wanted to share with the comedian their experiences with assimilation, Judaism and antisemitism.
—Ethan Shanfeld, Variety, 16 Sep. 2025
Two hecklers briefly interrupted Barrett’s appearance Saturday at the National Book Festival in Washington before they were escorted out by security.
—Susan Page, USA Today, 8 Sep. 2025
Well, that’s one way to silence a heckler.
—Julia Andersen, CNN Money, 26 Aug. 2025
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Ryan Oehrli, Charlotte Observer, 29 Sep. 2025
While touring the special, Edelman dealt with hecklers and haters, but mostly audience members who wanted to share with the comedian their experiences with assimilation, Judaism and antisemitism.
—Ethan Shanfeld, Variety, 16 Sep. 2025
Two hecklers briefly interrupted Barrett’s appearance Saturday at the National Book Festival in Washington before they were escorted out by security.
—Susan Page, USA Today, 8 Sep. 2025
Well, that’s one way to silence a heckler.
—Julia Andersen, CNN Money, 26 Aug. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for heckler
Noun
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The documentary tells the true story of a teenage couple relentlessly bullied via text by an anonymous harasser.—
EW.com,
EW.com,
2 Sep. 2025
Noun
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The label on this one is like a tease.—
Jolene Thym,
Mercury News,
27 Oct. 2025
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The Kansas fallout is a zoomed-out picture, illustrating a program that has made significant strides since a winless 2020 season but hasn’t advanced past the tease of something more.—
Kansas City Star,
Kansas City Star,
26 Oct. 2025
Noun
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It might have been produced, and not merely set, in a torturer’s basement.—
Justin Chang,
New Yorker,
24 Oct. 2025
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Simply the possibility of taking some kind of revenge on the man who may or may not have been their torturer suddenly becomes an existential fact each person must confront in his or her own way.—
Bilge Ebiri,
Vulture,
17 Oct. 2025
Noun
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The mind could wander briefly about the Giants riding a two-game winning streak into a Thursday Night Football matchup with the Eagles, equipped to knock off their tormentors who suddenly look vulnerable.—
Dan Duggan,
New York Times,
6 Oct. 2025
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On the Met’s stage, the writer — called, say, Jamal Khashoggi — would be sung by a heroic tenor, his tormentor by a demonic baritone.—
Justin Davidson,
Vulture,
30 Sep. 2025
Noun
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These programs harvest passwords, browser data and other sensitive information, sending it back to the attacker's command and control servers.—
Kurt Knutsson,
FOXNews.com,
3 Nov. 2025
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There is no evidence of an attacker at the University of Virginia after a gunman was reported near a library on campus, according to an emergency alert from campus police.—
N'dea Yancey-Bragg,
USA Today,
3 Nov. 2025
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“Heckler.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/heckler. Accessed 5 Nov. 2025.
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