heckling
IPA: hˈɛkɫɪŋ
noun
- The act of one who heckles.
- The preparation of flax for spinning using special combs called hackles.
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Examples of "heckling" in Sentences
- More heckling from the unwashed twits in the village.
- The heckling is usually seen in third world countries.
- Some men, heckling from the sidelines, insist that excluding men is a form of sexism.
- When you determine it is time to begin heckling, do not raise your hand in hopes of being called upon.
- Joe Wilson is not a decent guy who had a lapse of judgement in heckling the President of the United States.
- Among the people I shoot skeet and sporting clays with, good natured heckling is an accepted, even encouraged, practice.
- It is GREAT to see this back and forth in Washington again ... if only the GOP would join in more instead of heckling from the sidelines.
- I have been the "other": a foreigner in various countries, and a girl in a country where the heckling is called "eve-teasing" and dismissed with a smile.
- Sean Young has entered rehabilitation for alcohol abuse following a weekend outburst in which she was heckling from the audience at the Directors Guild of America awards.
- After listening to the exchange between Rumsfeld and McGovern I would not call it heckling but for some reason it seems the press is uncomfortable with individual citizens doing the job they seem to squeemish to take on.
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