shrillness

[shril-nis]

noun

1. the quality of being shrill.

Example Sentences

The ashram she built in the Santa Monica mountains was as subversive as any free school or fringe arts cohort, just without the shrillness of dogma.

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Chinese diplomacy under the rule of President Xi Jinping has become noted for its shrillness.

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One could just chalk it up to run-of-the-mill political cynicism, but for the shrillness of the rhetoric.

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The backlash showed how "minority shrillness can become very, very loud and can become picked up and can become a story", she added.

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He has used maximum rhetorical shrillness, warning that fossil fuels pose an “existential” threat to Earth — the end of all flora and fauna, including us bipeds.

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