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strident Adjective 1. (of a voice or sound) loud and harsh 2. loud, persistent, and forceful: a strident critic of the establishment [Latin stridens] stridency n
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strident adjective harsh, jarring, grating, clashing, screeching, raucous, shrill, rasping, jangling, discordant, clamorous, unmusical, stridulant, stridulous << OPPOSITE soft Translations |
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| At one moment the rush and the soaring swing of speed; the next a crash, and death, stillness - a moment of horrible immobility, with the song of the wind changed to a strident wail, and the heavy waters boiling up menacing and sluggish around the corpse. Her laugh, too, was high, and perhaps a little strident, but there was a lively intelligence in it. "Ma," she shouted suddenly, in her shrill, strident treble, "I see Martin comin'. |
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