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
The vestal silence remained unbroken by the stridulous clarinet and the blatant trombones.
From The Galaxy, Volume 23, No. 2, February, 1877 by Various
Inspiration becomes noisy, sometimes stridulous or metallic or sibilant, and there is marked indrawing of the epigastrium and lower intercostal spaces.
From Manual of Surgery Volume First: General Surgery. Sixth Edition. by Alexis Thomson
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 looks big; he paints himself histrionically; he soots his face; he has a masterful dog, nothing half so fearful as a wolf-dog or bloodhound; and he raises his own manes, poor, stridulous Struldbrugs.
From The Posthumous Works of Thomas De Quincey, Vol. 1 by Alexander H. (Alexander Hay) Japp
