trash-talker

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Noun
  • The hecklers came for his buddy, Rory McIlroy.
    Brody Miller, New York Times, 30 Sep. 2025
  • Throughout the weekend, McIlroy and other European players sparred with fans, with some, including McIlroy, yelling back at hecklers, while others reportedly flashed middle fingers in response to fans’ jeers.
    Sean Neumann, PEOPLE, 29 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • On the Met’s stage, the writer — called, say, Jamal Khashoggi — would be sung by a heroic tenor, his tormentor by a demonic baritone.
    Justin Davidson, Vulture, 30 Sep. 2025
  • Thornton uses a wheelchair, and here his Lucky is guided by his tormentor.
    Frank Rizzo, Variety, 29 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
  • Johnson’s detractors accuse him of championing Bukele despite his increasing abuses of power.
    T. Christian Miller, ProPublica, 30 Sep. 2025
  • As if to preëmpt her detractors, Burnett often resorted to brutal self-deprecation, describing herself in interviews as scrawny or bucktoothed.
    Rachel Syme, New Yorker, 29 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • For decades, generals, coup-plotters, and torturers walked free under the shield of amnesty laws passed after the country’s 21-year dictatorship.
    Julia Vargas Jones, CNN Money, 12 Sep. 2025
  • Is the man actually his torturer?
    Zach Dennis, Charlotte Observer, 9 Sep. 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
  • That’s quite a tease, not to mention a lot of pressure to put on her 12th release.
    Shannon Carlin, Time, 1 Oct. 2025
  • Living together in the Fear House, a group of strangers face OMG stunts, challenges, and a twisted game of social strategy, Banijay teases.
    John Hopewell, Variety, 29 Sep. 2025
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“Trash-talker.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/trash-talker. Accessed 6 Oct. 2025.

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