as in harasser
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 heckler
Country singer Kelsea Ballerini responded to a heckler during a recent show in Sydney, Australia.
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Caché McClay, Nashville Tennessean, 8 Dec. 2025
Every comedian has to contend with hecklers — and Adam Sandler still remembers a particularly strange jeer from his teenage stand-up days.
—Wesley Stenzel, Entertainment Weekly, 24 Nov. 2025
Some members of the audience booed the heckler.
—Kate Plummer, MSNBC Newsweek, 24 Oct. 2025
The hecklers came for his buddy, Rory McIlroy.
—Brody Miller, New York Times, 30 Sep. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for heckler
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Instead, the lawsuit argued, law enforcement in the area where the harasser lived should have served the papers.—
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Moreover, when harassers disproportionately target women, people of color and LGBTQ officials, entire communities are systematically excluded from participation in self-governance.—
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While this time around things went a bit smoother, the Step Up actress teases that, still, plenty of chaos will ensue.—
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Fans have already seen a Hannah Montana 20th anniversary tease, Miley Cyrus says.—
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As my experience showed, a heavy reliance on physical abuse makes for proficient torturers, not skilled interrogators.—
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Hopper grabs El and leaves Kali behind to be captured by her torturers again.—
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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.—
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Half mentor, half tormentor, Alex ruled her empire from a four-poster bed — brash, brilliant, and impossible to cross.—
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Her adrenal gland would begin to work overtime and she’d be lifted up, energized, hunted, and desperate to outwit her attacker and survive.—
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Federal agencies are also issuing advisories about the group's social engineering techniques, noting how attackers impersonate help desks, abuse multi-factor authentication and harvest credentials to access corporate networks.—
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“Heckler.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/heckler. Accessed 20 Jan. 2026.
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