The phrase "aggressive laugh" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a laugh that is forceful, intense, or perhaps mocking in nature, often conveying a sense of hostility or assertiveness.
Example: "His aggressive laugh echoed through the room, making everyone feel uneasy."
Alternatives: "hostile laugh" or "forceful laugh".
The LA Times described it as "that rarest of treats" while the New York Times claimed, ringingly, that it proved "women can go aggressive laugh to aggressive-and-absurd laugh with men".
Contra Christopher Hitchens and his 2007 assertion in Vanity Fair that women are not funny, they offer irrefutable proof that along with producing and starring in a hit TV series (thank you, Tina Fey), women can go aggressive laugh to aggressive-and-absurd laugh with men.
Everyone dislikes being laughed at and, consequently, aggressive laughter is extremely powerful.
"The others in line grew angry and aggressive," she says, laughing, "but then they realised that the waiting was also part of the performance".
If a guy comes up to you and says something aggressive, you can only laugh and walk away.
"I said to Michael, 'You've made me much milder; I'm really a more aggressive woman,' " she said, laughing.
Enrolled at the age of 5 in the exclusive Spence School, on the Upper East Side of Manhattan, she's "aggressive, pulling hair,... laughing during lessons and talking out of turn" — enough of a behavior problem that the school suggests she see a psychiatrist to determine the cause of her maladjustment, which is never adequately addressed in "Gone to the Crazies".
Avoid swearing, drinking, drugs, laughing loudly, aggressive behavior, and flashy outfits.
Entertainment writing — and comedy writing, in particular — is about aggressive specificity: People don't laugh at vague jokes they don't get, and people don't respond to vague sales emails about products or services they don't understand.
If Freud is right that the energy released in laughing at a joke is the energy normally used to repress hostile and sexual feelings, then it seems that those who laugh hardest at aggressive and sexual jokes should be people who usually repress such feelings.
That's not to say there aren't some funny moments: I laughed at his aggressive "salsa-off" in a high-rise car park with Chris O'Dowd and his claim that "identifying dogs by their silhouettes" is one of his talents.
