as in harassers
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 hecklers
McIlroy was even seen stepping back from the ball to quip back at one of the hecklers, while others, including his friend Shane Lowry, were also quick to respond.
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Scott Thompson,
FOXNews.com,
23 June 2026
For Bellinger, at least, a creative exchange with some professional hecklers was more welcomed.
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Peter Chawaga,
Forbes.com,
14 June 2026
Any comedian that’s good with dealing with hecklers lost to hecklers many, many times coming up.
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Steve Appleford,
SPIN,
1 June 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
Placard-waving hecklers who supported Barry Goldwater, the Republican nominee for president, tried to interrupt Lady Bird’s speeches at many of the stops.
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Charlotte Observer,
16 Apr. 2026
Along with Al Raby, head of the Coordinating Council of Community Organizations, Jackson helped select Marquette Park as the target for a 1966 fair housing march, at which racist white hecklers infamously threw rocks, bricks and bottles and hit King in the head.
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David Greising,
Chicago Tribune,
26 Feb. 2026
Nanjiani, 44, became famous for stand-up comedy based on his real-life experiences, including growing up in Pakistan, moving to Iowa for college at 18, and dealing with racist hecklers as a Muslim post-9/11.
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Kylie Gilbert,
InStyle,
6 Jan. 2026
Scott Thompson,
FOXNews.com,
23 June 2026
For Bellinger, at least, a creative exchange with some professional hecklers was more welcomed.
—
Peter Chawaga,
Forbes.com,
14 June 2026
Any comedian that’s good with dealing with hecklers lost to hecklers many, many times coming up.
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Steve Appleford,
SPIN,
1 June 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
Placard-waving hecklers who supported Barry Goldwater, the Republican nominee for president, tried to interrupt Lady Bird’s speeches at many of the stops.
—
Charlotte Observer,
16 Apr. 2026
Along with Al Raby, head of the Coordinating Council of Community Organizations, Jackson helped select Marquette Park as the target for a 1966 fair housing march, at which racist white hecklers infamously threw rocks, bricks and bottles and hit King in the head.
—
David Greising,
Chicago Tribune,
26 Feb. 2026
Nanjiani, 44, became famous for stand-up comedy based on his real-life experiences, including growing up in Pakistan, moving to Iowa for college at 18, and dealing with racist hecklers as a Muslim post-9/11.
—
Kylie Gilbert,
InStyle,
6 Jan. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for hecklers
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.
Noun
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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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Rhys teases of the finale’s contents.
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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.
Noun
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That their tormentors were not untouchable.
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If the tormenters keep it up, grackles do eventually move.
Noun
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But most of the city’s residents refused to surrender to their attackers, instead choosing to take their own lives inside the city walls.
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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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“Hecklers.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hecklers. Accessed 30 Jun. 2026.
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