TRASH-TALKER Synonyms: 57 Similar and Opposite Words

trash-talker

noun

as in mocker

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Recent Examples of trash-talker Hoiberg’s adversary Thursday in Houston, Iowa’s Ben McCollum — in the first Sweet 16 ever for Nebraska and first in 27 years for Iowa — just sent it right back the other way to vicious trash-talker Todd Golden amid a shocker over Florida. — Joe Rexrode, New York Times, 25 Mar. 2026

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Noun

Enforcement should address speech codes, discriminatory security fees, selective recognition of student groups, and administrative acquiescence in the heckler’s veto.

— Ilya Shapiro, Washington Post, 8 Nov. 2026
The president was most of the way through his speech late Monday to a crowd of MAGA loyalists when the heckler briefly forced him to pause.

— Dave Goldiner, New York Daily News, 27 Oct. 2026

Definition of heckler

Noun

Parton’s ability to become the harasser without falling into some version of male drag makes this short sequence far superior to the many films with a similar premise that followed.

— Culture Critic, Los Angeles Times, 26 Aug. 2026
White stars can help by publicly supporting their Black colleagues, who are especially targeted by online trolls and harassers.

— Ian O'Connor, New York Times, 26 Aug. 2026

Definition of harasser

Noun

The clash between left-wing political commentator Hasan Piker and his media detractors is moving from the chatroom to the courtroom.

— Abigail Sylvor Greenberg, Vanity Fair, 3 Nov. 2026
The protests earned a mixture of admiration and condemnation, and the actions’ detractors now even include the National Gallery’s director, who addressed Just Stop Oil in a new Telegraph profile.

— Alex Greenberger, ARTnews.com, 2 Nov. 2026

Definition of detractor

Noun

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.

— EW Staff, Entertainment Weekly, 25 June 2026
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.

— Meredith Maran, Los Angeles Times, 1 June 2026

Definition of torturer

Noun

The 40-year-old singer Ryan Davis, a cowboy wiseacre with a drum machine and the patience for 11-minute anthems, riffs merrily on such existential mysteries.

— Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 12 Dec. 2025
Similarly, the Pink Ladies, a popular clique headed by Rizzo (Stockard Channing), deliver their wiseacre lines with a fair dose of irony.

— Vogue, Vogue, 10 Sep. 2024

Definition of wiseacre

Noun

Are prisoners in Nazi concentration camps not the legal owners of artworks they were forced to make by their SS persecutors?

— Devorah Lauter, ARTnews.com, 18 Sep. 2026
Honoring the undocumented and decrying their persecutors at the height of her career, against political headwinds and with nothing to gain and everything to lose, was par for her life, and a challenge for all of us to do the same.

— Gustavo Arellano, Los Angeles Times, 26 Aug. 2026

Definition of persecutor

Noun

Inde Navarrette is giving X-Men fans a very early tease at her take on Rogue.

— McKinley Franklin, HollywoodReporter, 24 Oct. 2026
New post-credits scenes from the Endgame re-release tease that Doom could be attacking the Marvel multiverse itself by causing different realities to collide into each other.

— Nick Romano, Entertainment Weekly, 24 Oct. 2026

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