trash-talker

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Noun
  • Seinfeld said sarcastically to the hecklers as the audience laughed and cheered.
    Zack Sharf, Variety, 10 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
Noun
  • Adrianna had a history with Khloe Along with the Christmas photo, police flagged Adrianna over a prior dispute with Khloe, who believed she was being framed as Owen and Lauryn's tormentor.
    Emily Blackwood, PEOPLE, 12 Sep. 2025
  • 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
Noun
  • 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
  • Ironically, the company was the largest detractor from the Hang Seng Index, accounting for a decline of -26 index points.
    Brendan Ahern, Forbes.com, 8 Sep. 2025
  • Deen also takes several swipes at her former detractors in the project, including fellow foodie and CNN travel documentarian Anthony Bourdain, who died by suicide in 2018.
    Gerrad Hall, Entertainment Weekly, 7 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • 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
  • In 1982’s hit action comedy 48 Hours, a young Eddie Murphy plays a wiseacre criminal on parole in order to help a veteran cop, played by Nick Nolte, solve a case.
    Pete Hammond, Deadline, 4 Aug. 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
Noun
  • The grounds once housed the elaborate palace of first century Roman Emperor Domitian, a persecutor of Christians.
    Angie Leventis Lourgos, Chicago Tribune, 5 Sep. 2025
  • That is a nasty process which involves digging up Ambar’s still-fresh corpse, then subjecting it to various grisly indignities night after night as retribution gets visited upon our heroine’s persecutors.
    Dennis Harvey, Variety, 6 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • The quirky tease came on the heels of Doja making her debut as a Global Ambassador for MAC.
    Mya Abraham, VIBE.com, 10 Sep. 2025
  • During the conversation, the Universal leader gave just a tease at what’s to come in the years ahead.
    Colson Thayer, PEOPLE, 9 Sep. 2025
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“Trash-talker.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/trash-talker. Accessed 15 Sep. 2025.

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