shrill

Then all the shrill noise of combat hits the ears at once and you understand how impossible it is to make sense of anything.

Shakespeare’s play assumes the shrieks and shrill cries of a B-movie.

These go-nowhere debates exhaust progressive energies and make it easier for the right to paint the left as "shrill."

We must transcend the shrill negative feelings and emotions that characterized the campaign season.

“We were harsh and shrill, and not nice”, he added, arguing that this resulted in many previous Conservative voters backing the Liberal Democrats or staying at home.