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UK
/stɹˈaɪdənt/
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[ US /ˈstɹaɪdənt/ ]
[ US /ˈstɹaɪdənt/ ]
ADJECTIVE
- unpleasantly loud and harsh
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being sharply insistent on being heard
shrill criticism
strident demands
strident demands - of speech sounds produced by forcing air through a constricted passage (as `f', `s', `z', or `th' in both `thin' and `then')
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conspicuously and offensively loud; given to vehement outcry
a vociferous mob
strident demands
a clamorous uproar
strident demands
blatant radios
How To Use strident In A Sentence
- People are put off by his strident voice.
- She comes across as very different from the stereotypes of the bitter single career woman or the strident female in power.
- In front the violin sang a strident tune, and the biniou snored and hummed, while the player capered solemnly, lifting high his heavy clogs. Tales of Unrest
- Most of the time his voice was loud and strident. Christianity Today
- Owing in large part to the Administration's ham-handed advance work, the strident conservative anger that erupted this summer over health-care reform has shifted from town halls to school halls.
- His bass is strident without encroaching, but never drives the rhythm; rather, it reacts to it.
- They are becoming increasingly strident in their criticism of government economic policy.
- Strident, assertive saddlebacks begin argumentative vocal duels, their staccato ‘Yak-yak - yak-yak’ in ever longer and louder volleys.
- A venerable and hitherto decorous old deacon of Roxbury not only left the church when the hated bass-viol began its accompanying notes, but he stood for a long time outside the church door stridently "caterwauling" at the top of his lungs. Sabbath in Puritan New England
- Four overbears them all, strident and strepitant -- Early Reviews of English Poets