shrillest
- superlative of shrill.
Example Sentences
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His half-sublimated wranglings with race are more complex and fraught than either his shrillest detractors or his most fawning defenders would have us believe.
From Salon • May 30, 2012
Pick: Giants Jets at Bills Line: Jets by 5 1/2 The Jets have joined the Chargers and the Cowboys as one of the league’s shrillest teams.
From New York Times • Oct. 1, 2010
“It’s a big test for the leadership. We cannot listen to the loudest, shrillest voices in our party,” said Rep. Charlie Dent, a moderate Republican who represents the Philadelphia suburbs.
From Washington Post
He was deaf to the shrillest birdsong�unless it came over his particular amplifying system, the phonograph.
From Time Magazine Archive
Through what unhallowed spell had this woman—once the meekest and humblest of wives—become the shrillest and most shrewest of widows?
From Gabriel Conroy by Harte, Bert
