screechingly
Americanadverb
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with an unpleasantly loud, high-pitched, or discordant voice or sound, like a screech.
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to a degree that strikes the senses or sensibilities unpleasantly; excessively or harshly.
Example Sentences
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Enlightenment values have accommodated screechingly discordant beliefs, such as that all men are created equal, that aristocrats should be decapitated and that people can be traded as chattel.
From Nature ● Oct. 7, 2019
That tells of a damning sense of paralysis, a club constructed in such a way they cannot change the record no matter how screechingly discordant their most annoying songs sound.
From The Guardian ● Aug. 28, 2017
It’s screechingly awful, and especially after the incandescent latest season of “Veep,” feels like a sad and poor attempt at imitation.
From Salon ● Jun. 21, 2015
Lady Gaga and Nicki Minaj somehow manage to be both screechingly pop and wildly haute couture: As a result they inhabit all three of the above icon clusters.
From Slate ● Nov. 18, 2011
And here she screechingly sung,— But do not rage, I beg, my dear; I want you for my wife, And morning, noon, and night likewise, I'll love you like my life.
From The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 4, April, 1862 Devoted To Literature And National Policy by Various
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