Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as
stridence .
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- noun The quality of being
strident .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun having the timbre of a loud high-pitched sound
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Examples
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But a reminder about stridency is never out of place.
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However, The Christophers are not cited in the titles of the print I saw, and the filmâs inane stridency is not in keeping with The Christophers output I know.
Current Movie Reviews, Independent Movies - Film Threat 2008
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And, to date, the stridency from the Left (not least in the hate-mail I have been receiving) has been focused on our critique as an example of pro-Israeli bias.
Why the Left is worried Richard 2006
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But Kael also had little patience for stridency from the left.
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"Silence!" called a stridency which all recognized as coming from Hundred.
Explorations ANDERSON, Poul 1981
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The threat was surprising less for its stridency, which is not unusual in diatribes against the South and the United States, than for its timing.
NYT > Home Page 2010
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Chronicle has become the second newspaper to drop Ann Coulter\'s column this month, explaining that her "stridency" had crossed the line. '
OpEdNews - Quicklink: Morris Comm. in Augusta GA pulls Ann Coulter's column 2006
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Chronicle has become the second newspaper to drop Ann Coulter's column this month, explaining that her 'stridency' had crossed the line.
OpEdNews - Quicklink: Morris Comm. in Augusta GA pulls Ann Coulter's column 2006
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He sang with the sharp stridency which is the rule in Italy -- the words clear, the sounds nasal.
Eleanor Humphry Ward 1885
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Her delivery, too, is eerily good – a show of demure solicitude, invariably overtaken by steely, wild-eyed stridency.
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