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
Eminem, Post Malone and Kid Cudi The rappers all have small but memorable roles in the new film: Eminem, as a bearded heckler named Donald Jr.; Malone, as outlandish golf commentator DJ Omar Gosh; and Cudi, as an FBI agent who apprehends Stiller’s character at the end of the movie.
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Patrick Ryan, USA Today, 26 July 2025
Unfortunately for him, the alligators are back in this film, too, and Happy gets the last laugh when the beasts kill Eminem's heckler on the course.
—Lauren Huff Published, EW.com, 25 July 2025
In the years since, many of the faces of the original have died, including Barker, Weathers, Frances Bay, the hulking Richard Kiel and Joe Flaherty, who played the heckler.
—Jake Coyle, Chicago Tribune, 23 July 2025
Healey made her earlier comments in response to a pro-Palestinian heckler who accused Israel of genocide in Gaza.
—Joe Dwinell, Boston Herald, 19 July 2025
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Patrick Ryan, USA Today, 26 July 2025
Unfortunately for him, the alligators are back in this film, too, and Happy gets the last laugh when the beasts kill Eminem's heckler on the course.
—Lauren Huff Published, EW.com, 25 July 2025
In the years since, many of the faces of the original have died, including Barker, Weathers, Frances Bay, the hulking Richard Kiel and Joe Flaherty, who played the heckler.
—Jake Coyle, Chicago Tribune, 23 July 2025
Healey made her earlier comments in response to a pro-Palestinian heckler who accused Israel of genocide in Gaza.
—Joe Dwinell, Boston Herald, 19 July 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 teases of matches with Roman Reigns and Cody Rhodes had fans excited for another in-ring run.—
Andrew Ravens,
MSNBC Newsweek,
1 Sep. 2025
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Perhaps the most tantalizing tease of all?—
EW.com,
EW.com,
1 Sep. 2025
Noun
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Each regime, from the Pahlavi dynasty to the Islamic Republic, claimed to uphold human rights and castigated its predecessors as torturers, only to ratchet up the incarceration of political opponents.—
Foreign Affairs,
Foreign Affairs,
22 Apr. 2025
Noun
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The tormentor of a quarterback, whose two touchdown runs were eerily similar to those which fashioned Jeanty a household name and top 10 pick, makes the Bulls a larger blip on Florida’s radar than expected.—
Noah White,
Miami Herald,
6 Sep. 2025
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Brown-Trickey was eventually suspended for standing up to her tormentors, while her white aggressors went unpunished.—
Time,
Time,
4 Sep. 2025
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The attackers opened fire at people waiting at a bus depot, police said, before boarding a bus to continue the attack.—
David Brennan,
ABC News,
8 Sep. 2025
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But the attacker re-aggravated his hamstring at the club’s training hub in Rush Green.—
Roshane Thomas,
New York Times,
8 Sep. 2025
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“Heckler.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/heckler. Accessed 11 Sep. 2025.
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