stridulous
Americanadjective
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Also stridulant. making or having a harsh or grating sound.
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Pathology. pertaining to or characterized by stridor.
adjective
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making a harsh, shrill, or grating noise
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pathol of, relating to, or characterized by stridor
Other Word Forms
Etymology
Origin of stridulous
1605–15; < Latin strīdulus, equivalent to strīd- ( see strident) + -ulus -ulous
Example Sentences
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At the farthest extremity of stridulous sell, or repetition and saturation, stands Ted Bates Chairman Reeves, author of a controversial and wide-selling book, Reality in Advertising.
From Time Magazine Archive
He looks big; he paints himself histrionically; he soots his face; he has a masterful dog, nothing half so fearful as a wolf-dog or bloodhound; and he raises his own manes, poor, stridulous Struldbrugs.
From The Posthumous Works of Thomas De Quincey, Vol. 1 by Japp, Alexander H. (Alexander Hay)
Methought I heard some sawyer draw his file With jarring, stridulous cacophany Across his notchy blade, to set its teeth And mine on edge.
From Black Beetles in Amber by Bierce, Ambrose
Again Edmund fired upon it, and again it uttered its stridulous pipe of defiance, or fear, and leaped away in the tangle.
From A Columbus of Space by Serviss, Garrett Putman
No," returned the captain in a stridulous whisper, "I have made no mistake.
From The Second Deluge by Serviss, Garrett Putman
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