screechy
Americanadjective
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like or suggesting screeching.
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producing screeches.
a screechy door.
adjective
Etymology
Origin of screechy
Example Sentences
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The tires’ screechy chatter only relents as the car picks up momentum in second gear.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 23, 2026
Opening episodes of “The Office” presented Michael Scott as a screechy menace.
From Salon ● Sep. 4, 2025
If you want a children’s show that is not screechy, or if your family is not quite ready to summit Mount “Adventure Time,” watch this.
From New York Times ● Nov. 3, 2022
It was a time of screechy dial-up internet and flip phones, when investors were throwing funds at any start-up with “dot com” in its name.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 4, 2022
Because, behind them, someone had just pushed open that screechy steel door.
From "The Smartest Kid in the Universe" by Chris Grabenstein
The Malabar parakeets — smaller and screechier than their cousins in Delhi — flitted through the forest.
From New York Times ● Jan. 14, 2011
Now, “Orange County,” which is the screechiest “Housewives” franchise, had experienced so far a year of immense healing, with the Housewives working on forgiveness.
From New York Times ● Jan. 12, 2017
I’m okay with not hearing the screechiest parts of a song in their full bluster.
From The Verge ● Jan. 27, 2016
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