stridulous

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At the farthest extremity of stridulous sell, or repetition and saturation, stands Ted Bates Chairman Reeves, author of a controversial and wide-selling book, Reality in Advertising.

From Time Magazine Archive

There were stridulous, uncanny groans from quaking beams.

From The ghosts of their ancestors by Mills, Weymer Jay

This crowing sound is accompanied by a harsh, grating, stridulous kind of cry which has been compared to the noise produced by whetting a scythe.

From Birds, Illustrated by Color Photography, Vol. 2, No. 6 December, 1897 by Various

“He was quite like his old self before he left——” “Thanks to Miss Percy,” broke in a stridulous voice.

From The Gorgeous Isle A Romance; Scene: Nevis, B.W.I. 1842 by Atherton, Gertrude Franklin Horn

An inspection of its stridulous surface shows that Mrs. Dudgeon is not alone.

From The Devil's Disciple by Shaw, Bernard