stridently


Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
strident/ˈstrʌɪdnt/
adjective
  • 1 loud and harsh.
  • 2 presenting a point of view in an excessively forceful way.
  • 3 Phonetics sibilant.
– derivatives
stridency noun,
stridently adverb.
– origin C17: from L. strident-, stridere ‘creak’.
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