shrieky

A garbage disposal is hardly a glamorous item, but there are reasons to pore over its details the same way you do with any other kitchen appliance, lest you wind up with a shrieky, leaky or clog-generating device.

“Really loud and really grating. ... They’re every bit as shrieky as the red-crowned parrot, but with an added staccato burst, that makes it extra grating. If you’ve got a flock of a hundred right by your apartment complex, which they were in Altadena — they were literally roosting right next to a bunch of apartments — that’s going to be insane.”

As these hearings play out, keep your ears peeled for moments when Cheney may quote depositions in which McCarthy is described as “a baby,” “a shrieky little scaredy-pants,” and “a poopyhead.”

In the midst of the ladies’ shrieky laughter and the men’s guffaws and haws, Dr. Slaughter hurried in.

It’s hard to see how you could characterize her as shrieky, unless you believe that forthright and vigorous speech from women in their twenties necessarily constitutes shrieking.