pitchy
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The glitchy, pitchy Vanellope remains something of a misfit heroine in her high-speed racing game, “Sugar Rush,” and she’s increasingly bored with its well-worn race tracks and retina-searing Candyland colors.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 14, 2018
These questions, pressed on, may open trapdoors onto pitchy voids.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 13, 2018
Adele gave an uncharacteristically pitchy performance at last year's Grammys - after a rogue microphone fell on her piano strings and knocked everything out of tune.
From BBC ● Feb. 10, 2017
The look on his face suggested that she was his problem to solve, an instrument in need of careful tuning — powerful, fragile, valuable, pitchy.
From New York Times ● Aug. 21, 2014
Clare turned to the window, his good ear picking up the far-off sound: a chorus of pitchy voices in the distance.
From "The Undead Fox of Deadwood Forest" by Aubrey Hartman
The range of this portrait painter's palette is from pitchiest black to most dazzling white, as of snow smitten by sunlight.
From Expositions of Holy Scripture Ephesians; Epistles of St. Peter and St. John by Maclaren, Alexander
Sounds there were as of things flapping from the walls, as of wood falling; but all was in the pitchiest darkness—a very “darkness which might be felt.”
From The First Violin A Novel by Fothergill, Jessie
The cold, grey light of earliest morning, that light which is rather the fading of night than the coming of day, filled the room with a faint hue, more cheerless than pitchiest darkness.
From Dr. Heidenhoff's Process by Bellamy, Edward
But the instinct of Pat would find out a cellar-door on the pitchiest night.
From My Lords of Strogue, Vol. II (of III) A Chronicle of Ireland, from the Convention to the Union by Wingfield, Lewis
