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strident
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Definition:characterized by harshness; grating; shrill.Noah Webster. Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
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The telescreen had changed over to strident military music.
George Orwell. 1984 (1949)
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The mockingbirds and the jays, engaged in their old feud for possession of the magnolia tree beneath her window, were bickering, the jays strident, acrimonious, the mockers sweet voiced and plaintive.
Margaret Mitchell. Gone with the Wind (1936)
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the talk was incomprehensible, half drowned by the stridence of St. James Infirmary coming from the loud-speaker
Albert Camus. The Plague, p.154 (Stuart Gilbert translation) (1948)
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