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

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

There were stridulous, uncanny groans from quaking beams.

From The ghosts of their ancestors by Mills, Weymer Jay

Often this recurs throughout all the burst of crying which follows, and each inspiration is accompanied by a shrill stridulous sound.

From The Nervous Child by Cameron, Hector Charles

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