Definitions

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Having a loud voice; speaking with a loud voice; noisy; clamorous.

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  • adjective having an unusually loud voice

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Examples

  • Daughtry nodded, and thereupon ensued a loud-voiced discussion that drew Michael's earnest attention from one talker to the other.

    CHAPTER XVII 2010

  • One young fan asks Jane Lynch if she would mind saying "something mean," and Lynch obliges in her best loud-voiced Sue Sylvester: "I will not rest until I see your headless body floating in a shallow lake!"

    Exclusive: Go Behind the Scenes of Glee's Regionals: New Directions Takes Back the Slushie! 2011

  • I think it is really lucky that we have people like you, ones with a 'profile' (ooh-er), standing up and saying this kind of thing, because there are an awful lot of loud-voiced gibbons out there who just. don't. get it.

    The Story Machine lili 2008

  • Oliver Grantchester who, true to his loud-voiced authoritative manner, had taken it as his natural province to orchestrate the semi-business meeting, cleared his throat noisily and said, 'I say, I say' a few times until everyone was listening.

    They didn’t read Pitchfork or Stereogum or Gorilla vs. Bear or Hipster Runoff Josh Spilker 2010

  • They were loud-voiced people who often moved their furniture about and once or twice had given noisy parties.

    Portobello Ruth Rendell 2010

  • Fighting side by side with them pushed some weary street outcast in faded black rags, wide-eyed, loud-voiced, and foul-mouthed.

    The War of The Worlds H. G. Wells 2009

  • Judaism is a religion without catechism or dogma, and as a consequence, the Jewish tradition places great value upon loud-voiced and teeth-baring debate—as long as it is a makhlokhet leshem shamayim “a dispute for the sake of heaven”.

    Archive 2009-08-01 2009

  • On the day I moved in, one neighborhood godfather, a husky, loud-voiced 80-year-old, grilled me.

    Tom Doctoroff: Life in the "Lilong": My Shanghai Lane House Adventure 2009

  • Judaism is a religion without catechism or dogma, and as a consequence, the Jewish tradition places great value upon loud-voiced and teeth-baring debate—as long as it is a makhlokhet leshem shamayim “a dispute for the sake of heaven”.

    The harsh style 2009

  • He was a large-boned, loud-voiced, red-faced man, named Meiklewham; a country writer, or attorney, who managed the matters of the Squire much to the profit of one or other, — if not of both.

    Saint Ronan's Well 2008

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