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strident::adjective | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | continuant, fricative, sibilant, spirant |
strident::adjective | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | raucous |
| Derivation | stridence |
strident::adjective | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | blatant, clamant, clamorous, vociferous |
| Derivation | stridence, stridency |
strident demands.
Examples of strident
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Germany is one of the few European countries without a strident far-right party.
From the guardian.co.uk
Inside political circles, Maliki had been known as a strident Shi'ite hardliner.
From the time.com
How do you know that people who have strident views tend to speed significantly?
From the gazetteherald.co.uk
It might be strident and determined, but it's definitely not dry and humourless.
From the scienceblogs.com
Melini acknowledges that even some environmentalists consider him too strident.
From the orlandosentinel.com
All of a sudden he sounded more strident about the need to cut back government.
From the newsobserver.com
Too often for her own good, Hillary Clinton seems either tentative or strident.
From the time.com
Critics at the time urged him to fly to West Germany and make strident remarks.
From the evangelicaloutpost.com
A strident German feminist movement, echoing the American one, grew in the 1970s.
From the economist.com
- Blatant: conspicuously and offensively loud; given to vehement outcry; "blatant radios"; "a clamorous uproar"; "strident demands"; "a vociferous mob"
- Fricative: of speech sounds produced by forcing air through a constricted passage (as `f', `s', `z', or `th' in both `thin' and `then')
- Being sharply insistent on being heard; "strident demands"; "shrill criticism"
- Raucous: unpleasantly loud and harsh
- (stridently) in a strident manner; "the cheap clock ticked stridently"
- (stridency) shrillness: having the timbre of a loud high-pitched sound
- Loud; shrill, piercing, high-pitched; rough-sounding; Grating or obnoxious; Vigorous; making strides
- A poorly defined term which encompasses sibilants, affricates and whatever the author sees fit.
- Unpleasantly shrill, piercing.
