trash-talkers

noun

plural of trash-talker
as in detractors

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for trash-talkers
  1. detractors
  2. torturers
  3. tormentors
  4. hecklers
  5. wise guys
  6. harassers
  7. persecutors
  8. teasers
Noun
  • And many Trump detractors have drawn parallels to Anthony Scaramucci’s infamous 11-day stint as White House communications director in 2017.
    — Brian Stelter, CNN Money, 16 Oct. 2026
  • There are a whole lot of reasons to have a whole lot of concerns about the harm artificial intelligence can cause, which explains why the technology has so many detractors.
    — Jeffrey Kluger, Time, 14 Oct. 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
  • Each nutty denunciation of his imaginary tormentors includes a plea for a presidential pardon.
    — Kevin Rennie, Hartford Courant, 3 Oct. 2026
  • 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
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
Noun
  • 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
  • Still, the star did not name her harassers.
    — Chanel Vargas, InStyle, 22 May 2026
Definition of harassers
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 persecutors
Noun
  • The others were ruffians, teasers, always angling to drink whatever was left in some grownup’s glass.
    — George Saunders, New Yorker, 18 Oct. 2026
  • The wording seemed to suggest that the sneakers, after years of various teasers, would finally arrive at retail.
    — Riley Jones, Footwear News, 10 Oct. 2026
Definition of teasers
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