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These are serious problems — but in contrast, he treats the equality movement among sexual and gender minorities as essentially shrill window-dressing.

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Unfortunately, the right’s shrill complaints about cancel culture obscure this far more present and complex problem.

Hearing them without describing them as shrill or hysterical has proved to be a separate, but equally daunting, task.

Memes have moved on from kitsch and community-forming to shrill and preachy.

In the city, where the songbirds have to compete with cars, barking dogs, and construction, their calls were louder and more shrill.

Behind a chorus of shrill insects, the pops of gunfire can sometimes be heard in the distance.

“When I was doing press for Whitney, critics were commenting on my appearance, saying I was shrill, saying I was needy,” she says.

We're so used to seeing in sitcoms the same relationship: the naggy, shrill wife who's constantly bickering with her husband.

The noise in the stadium grew for every point he won, but the points he lost were greeted with shrill, desperate screams.

Her voice was shrill with disbelief and choked with grief as she spoke to someone on her cell phone in Fujianese.

Robert uttered a shrill, piercing whistle which might have been heard back at the wharf.

"God bless 'ee, Missy," cried the old man in the shrill cracked voice of age, as he pressed up to the carriage window.

"Come in," said a Cockney voice shrill with youth, in answer to her tap; and the child obeyed.

"I shall feed no Yankees," cried a shrill voice, and a young lady flounced out of the door, her face red with anger.

As they came trooping in, and tumbled into their seats, Letty Barford called out, in a shrill voice.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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