hecklers

noun

plural of heckler
as in harassers
a person who causes repeated emotional pain, distress, or annoyance to another avoided the hecklers who hung out on the street corner making threatening remarks to passersby

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Recent Examples of hecklers Any comedian that’s good with dealing with hecklers lost to hecklers many, many times coming up. — Steve Appleford, SPIN, 1 June 2026 Yes, freedom of expression applies to hecklers, too. — Editorial, Boston Herald, 9 May 2026 Yes, freedom of expression applies to hecklers, too. — Las Vegas Review-Journal, Twin Cities, 7 May 2026 For Bellinger, at least, a creative exchange with some professional hecklers was more welcomed. — Peter Chawaga, Forbes.com, 14 June 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 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 Placard-waving hecklers who supported Barry Goldwater, the Republican nominee for president, tried to interrupt Lady Bird’s speeches at many of the stops. — Charlotte Observer, 16 Apr. 2026 Along with Al Raby, head of the Coordinating Council of Community Organizations, Jackson helped select Marquette Park as the target for a 1966 fair housing march, at which racist white hecklers infamously threw rocks, bricks and bottles and hit King in the head. — David Greising, Chicago Tribune, 26 Feb. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for hecklers
  1. harassers
  2. teases
  3. torturers
  4. tormentors
  5. attackers
Noun
  • Still, the star did not name her harassers.
    — Chanel Vargas, InStyle, 22 May 2026
  • Most harassers do not harass others in front of someone else.
    — Briana Mascaro, Forbes.com, 20 May 2026
Definition of harassers
Noun
  • They are all stuffed into selections from the adults-only section of a Spirit Halloween store and made to perform amateur strip teases for their fellow Islanders — all strapped to heart-rate monitors — to see who can raise whose heart rate the most.
    — Kathleen Walsh, Vulture, 22 June 2026
  • Rhys teases of the finale’s contents.
    — David Canfield, HollywoodReporter, 11 June 2026
Definition of teases
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
  • That their tormentors were not untouchable.
    — Nazanin Boniadi, Time, 11 Mar. 2026
  • If the tormenters keep it up, grackles do eventually move.
    — Michael Barnes, Austin American Statesman, 18 Feb. 2026
Definition of tormentors
Noun
  • The shooting may have been worse if not for the actions of a Muslim immigrant from Syria who wrestled a gun from one of the alleged attackers.
    — John Blake, CNN Money, 5 July 2026
  • Three goals in the group stages confirmed Ismael Saibari as one of Africa’s most lethal attackers at the World Cup.
    — Carl Anka, New York Times, 4 July 2026
Definition of attackers

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