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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

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

Especially one dressed in a monogrammed romper-suit the same shade of screechingly psychedelic baby blue that he has dyed his hair.

From The Guardian • Aug. 18, 2011

It rises perpendicularly out of the reeds, sings rather screechingly while in the air, and descends suddenly.

From The Nests and Eggs of Indian Birds, Volume 1 by Hume, Allan Octavian