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from The Century Dictionary.

  • Having a shrill or piercing voice.

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Examples

  • Just one more shrill-voiced petty piece of nonsense ...

    First on the CNN Ticker: GOP questions Obama's police criticism 2009

  • I well remember the pair of them, toward the last, worn and feeble, in beggars 'rags, with beggars' bowls, sunning themselves side by side on the cliffs, telling old stories and cackling shrill-voiced like children.

    Chapter 15 2010

  • For the shrill-voiced pretend-Christians, their religion is more a religion of exclusion than of inclusion.

    Resurrection of Intolerance 2009

  • But history isn't exactly on Lysacek's side; no reigning World Champion has won the Olympic gold since shrill-voiced commentator

    Gayired.com - Gay OnLine Community for Entertainment and Daily News 2009

  • That we have a responsibility always to take the claims themselves seriously doesn't mean we have a responsibility to take seriously every shrill-voiced, label-slinging partisan putting them forward.

    Archive 2005-05-01 2005

  • That we have a responsibility always to take the claims themselves seriously doesn't mean we have a responsibility to take seriously every shrill-voiced, label-slinging partisan putting them forward.

    The Judicial Power 2005

  • What shrill-voiced suppliant makes this eager cry?

    The Life and Death of Richard the Second 2004

  • But old men like the locusts (I.iii. 151) he compares to shrill-voiced creatures.

    Essays and Miscellanies 2004

  • In the tower a shrill-voiced drum chattered an unmistakable alarm.

    Dwellers in the Mirage 2004

  • Each has a truncated sand-spit jutting out to the north-west, while two have masses of snow-white coral spoil, which clinks and chinks underfoot, and upon which shrill-voiced terns scatter, with careless profusion, daubed and spotted eggs.

    Last Leaves from Dunk Island 2003

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