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
The dog maintained a stridulous barking; and James Polder carried her, in an ecstasy of snarling ill-temper, out.
From The Three Black Pennys A Novel by Hergesheimer, Joseph
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
And interweaving with it all, one continuous shrilling,—keen as the steel speech of a saw,—the stridulous telegraphy of crickets.
From Chita: a Memory of Last Island by Hearn, Lafcadio
It was as if the sparkling tent of the heavens were a great bowl turned over the place, hushing its stridulous merriment, stifling its wild laughter and dry-throated feminine screams.
From Trail's End by Ogden, George W. (George Washington)
