piercing
adjective
loud or shrill, as the quality of a voice.
piercingly
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a word derived from
piercing.
Example Sentences
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Considering Haru’s guilt for “betraying” Luis — after his death, he repeatedly appears as a mournful ghost in a bird costume — these numbers should be piercingly emotional, not blandly adorable.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 25, 2026
There, he earned a reputation as a piercingly thorough interviewer of victims and witnesses—but also an uncommonly gentle and sympathetic one.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 29, 2026
Her works achieve the difficult feat of synthesizing a coma-inducing dullness with piercingly shrill extended diatribes to create reverse masterpieces worthy of the most risible North Korean propaganda.
From Salon ● Sep. 7, 2024
Nights, however, continue to be freezing, and have become piercingly cold amid the dry weather.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 12, 2024
It was piercingly, shockingly cold when we stepped from the car.
From "A Walk in the Woods" by Bill Bryson
