Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Creakingly; harshly; gratingly.

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  • adverb In a strident manner.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adverb in a strident manner

Etymologies

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strident +‎ -ly

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Examples

  • Mr. Harper intends to use this as a wedge issue between voters who remain stridently environmentalist ideologues, and those who believe it will have detrimental factors on themselves and their families.

    Conservative Strategy: Attack The Shaft « Unambiguously Ambidextrous 2008

  • Mr. Harper intends to use this as a wedge issue between voters who remain stridently environmentalist ideologues, and those who believe it will have detrimental factors on themselves and their families.

    2008 August 15 « Unambiguously Ambidextrous 2008

  • CUFI is often described as stridently pro-Israel -- a term which is only accurate if one believes that intransigent right-wing policies improve Israel's long-term security.

    Harold Pollack: Reverend Hagee's Hitler Problem and Mine: God, Could You Email Me Offline? 2008

  • Why live revenues have grown so stridently is beyond the scope of this article, but our data - compiled from a PRS for Music report and the BPI - make two things clear: one, that the growth in live revenue shows no signs of slowing and two, that live is by far and away the most lucrative section of industry revenue for artists themselves, because they retain such a big percentage of the money from ticket sales.

    Boing Boing 2009

  • Supporters of the President and the Supreme Leader have accused Karroubi of spreading lies at the behest of Iran's external enemies, and they have called stridently for his arrest.

    Iran: The Revenge Anonymous, 2009

  • Chee peep, chee peep, a barbet called stridently in the branches of the kaffir boom tree under which they waited.

    When the Lion Feeds Smith, Wilbur 1964

  • Under Chavez, unions have multiplied exponentially, promoted by the government to counter what officials here call stridently anti-Chavez unions.

    Division of Labour 2010

  • Mike Gravel, Dennis Kucinich, and Ron Paul are the only presidential candidates who have been "stridently" and consistently anti-war.

    Obama On Withdrawal From Iraq: "I Reserve Right As Commander In Chief To Assess Situation" 2009

  • A Vienna-born actress and natural mankiller, Hede Massing in her early 20s found herself at the heart of Austria and Germany's stridently leftist artistic circle in the years following World War I.

    History That Tells An Unexpected Tale Harry Stein 2011

  • The teabagger movement is a movement of white evangelicals who are stridently anti-abortion and anti-gay.

    Think Progress » ThinkFast: February 1, 2010 2010

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