TRASH-TALKERS Synonyms: 56 Similar and Opposite Words

trash-talkers

noun

plural of trash-talker

as in detractors

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Noun

Scott’s performance has received across-the-board raves, but even more so than The Debut, the film itself has both fans and detractors.

— Joe Reid, Vulture, 18 Sep. 2026
Local detractors of the partnership include leaders of other Belgian cultural institutions, like Dirk Snauwaert, director of the Wiels contemporary art center in Brussels.

— Devorah Lauter, ARTnews.com, 10 Sep. 2026

Definition of detractors

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 torturers

Noun

The attacks lead to the fateful events of prom night — a famous moment from King’s original— in which Carrie, who’s become aware of growing telekinetic powers, turns her abilities on her tormenters when she’s finally pushed over the edge.

— Nick Romano, Entertainment Weekly, 27 July 2026
That their tormentors were not untouchable.

— Nazanin Boniadi, Time, 11 Mar. 2026

Definition of tormentors

Noun

That’s a little simplistic — look at San Francisco’s Scott Wiener being chased from a trans rights event by hecklers accusing him of being pro-genocide.

— David Weigel, semafor.com, 1 July 2026
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.

— Scott Thompson, FOXNews.com, 23 June 2026

Definition of hecklers

Noun

The wise guys already view Denver suspiciously, casting them with the 12th-best odds to reach the Super Bowl next February.

— Troy Renck, Denver Post, 1 Feb. 2026
Framing wise guys on murder charges for Whitey Bulger, looking the other way on a gangland hit by a BPD detective in Canton in 1976, the list of scandals is too great to even list them all.

— Howie Carr, Boston Herald, 14 Jan. 2026

Definition of wise guys

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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 persecutors

Noun

Over the last week, its official Instagram account has hosted a series of vignette teasers hinting to potential locations of the next stretch.

— Thomas Smith, Billboard, 11 Sep. 2026
After a summer of teasers, Quavo has revealed the title and release date for his third studio album executive produced by Pharrell Williams.

— Larisha Paul, Rolling Stone, 11 Sep. 2026

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