strident
loud, harsh, and aggressively insistent
Word origin: From Latin stridere, to creak or make a harsh sound.
Strident in a sentence
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Her strident criticism dominated the meeting.
The debate grew strident as each side abandoned argument for ever louder assertion.
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The new intern was so blank that she completed in two days a backlog her predecessor had let pile up for weeks.
Using “strident” well
Strident means loud, harsh, and aggressively insistent, whether of a sound or of a tone in argument. It implies grating forcefulness rather than mere volume.
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