trash-talker

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Recent Examples of trash-talker Vrabel’s a trash-talker by nature. Chad Graff, New York Times, 7 Jan. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for trash-talker
Noun
  • Like telling the New York Giants which coach to hire, posing with a Nobel Peace Prize that was not his, threatening political enemies, flipping off a heckler during a tour of a Detroit automaker, seeking to deploy troops to Minneapolis and wanting to make Canada our 51st state.
    Charles Selle, Chicago Tribune, 21 Jan. 2026
  • The heckler was suspended from Ford Motor, though donations have poured in to support him online.
    Kathryn Palmer, USA Today, 14 Jan. 2026
Noun
  • And her tormentors are all abruptly, painfully departing the scene or, at the very least, becoming ensnared in one humiliation after another.
    Howie Carr, Boston Herald, 16 Jan. 2026
  • Jeffrey Tambor is the corrupt Mayor of Whoville and the Grinch’s lifelong tormenter, Augustus May Who, who sets his hatred of Christmas in motion.
    Danny Horn, Entertainment Weekly, 29 Nov. 2025
Noun
  • Instead, the lawsuit argued, law enforcement in the area where the harasser lived should have served the papers.
    Idaho Statesman, Idaho Statesman, 27 Dec. 2025
  • Moreover, when harassers disproportionately target women, people of color and LGBTQ officials, entire communities are systematically excluded from participation in self-governance.
    Ernestine Nettles, Mercury News, 22 Nov. 2025
Noun
  • The biggest detractor is the lack of stability.
    Maggie Slepian, Outside, 26 Jan. 2026
  • An $850,000 ecotourism resort in Costa Rica for a study abroad program became a rallying cry for his detractors, and a scathing audit uncovered other questionable decisions.
    Greg Bluestein, AJC.com, 26 Jan. 2026
Noun
  • In the whole film, every character is talking about this one person [their torturer], who is absent.
    Scott Roxborough, HollywoodReporter, 21 Jan. 2026
  • As my experience showed, a heavy reliance on physical abuse makes for proficient torturers, not skilled interrogators.
    Elizabeth Tsurkov, The Atlantic, 11 Jan. 2026
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
  • 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
Noun
  • Shakespeare humanizes the Elizabethan stage stereotype of the villainous Jew by giving Shylock ample reason for wanting to get back at his Christian persecutors.
    Theater Critic, Los Angeles Times, 17 Jan. 2026
  • Paul was a former persecutor of Christians who became a missionary and was later beheaded in Rome.
    Lori A Bashian , Larry Fink, FOXNews.com, 23 Nov. 2025
Noun
  • The first tease from the film touches on that issue, with the help of photos.
    Georg Szalai, HollywoodReporter, 30 Jan. 2026
  • The vehicle, as tends to be the case with teases like this, is covered in a camouflage wrap, its still possible to make out some intriguing details.
    Bryan Hood, Robb Report, 27 Jan. 2026

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“Trash-talker.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/trash-talker. Accessed 5 Feb. 2026.

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