screechy
[skree-chee]
- like or suggesting screeching.
- producing screeches: a screechy door.
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Origin of screechy
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Examples from the Web for screechy
Contemporary Examples
Its topics are the predictable pop-culture bellwethers of the day, reheated into screechy mush.
Once again, Pharoah hammers down every screechy, scratchy vocal tic while doing a Rock-sian riff on Romeo and Juliet.
Flo was not just mediocre: she was catastrophically tragic, tone-deaf, screechy and, as Randy Jackson would say, “pitchy, dawg!”
Historical Examples
What she spoke of was a thing that turned, and made a screechy noise.
Walter PieterseMultatuli
Again he laughed in that high-pitched, screechy key of ineffable disdain.
An Oregon GirlAlfred Ernest Rice
He knew that she was taking violin lessons: he had often heard her screechy fiddling on the stairs and out in the hall.
The Goose ManJacob Wassermann
The screechy orchestra is a poor substitute for the grand birds' concerts of June and July.
Some Summer Days in IowaFrederick John Lazell
Her voice is so high and screechy, it cuts your ears; she does not want for wit, and expresses herself well.
screechy
- loud and shrill
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