stridulous

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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

"Who's there?" creaked the stridulous voice of good Mrs. Sprowl.

From Cudjo's Cave by Trowbridge, J. T. (John Townsend)

The vestal silence remained unbroken by the stridulous clarinet and the blatant trombones.

From The Galaxy, Volume 23, No. 2, February, 1877 by Various

Inspiration becomes noisy, sometimes stridulous or metallic or sibilant, and there is marked indrawing of the epigastrium and lower intercostal spaces.

From Manual of Surgery Volume First: General Surgery. Sixth Edition. by Thomson, Alexis

At last he stopped, hearing a loud creaking sound, a grating stridulous noise, like that of the rusty hinges of some heavy iron gate which was being closed just behind him.

From The Pobratim A Slav Novel by Jones, P.