shrillness
IPA: ʃrˈɪɫnʌs
noun
- (uncountable) The property of being shrill.
- (countable) The result or product of being shrill.
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Examples of "shrillness" in Sentences
- Just like they want to butch-out or bitch-out Hillary with her "shrillness" or "ambition."
- What I find frustrating about your shrillness is precisely that it seems to be an objective in itself.
- Notable about this election, (and a great disappointment to this partisan observer,) is the sheer 'shrillness' of the rhetoric.
- At any rate, McCain shrillness and inability to draw money, coverage and set an original agenda shows what a total dinosaur loser he is.
- Not one comment about Hillary by Edwards, Dodd, Obama or the others on Tuesday had even the faintist whiff of sexism: nothing about "shrillness" or any other code word.
- The pitch of Londonistan may occasionally exceed that which is discernible to the human ear, but her shrillness is the result of a wholly justifiable anger that few people in power seem to be listening.
- However - no matter what criticisms can be leveled against Krugman for his "shrillness", as it's been called, no objective person could have read that op-ed and seriously believe he was advocating a bubble.
- Re: the ostensible "shrillness" and "vitriol" that you feel obliged to draw attention to in every intervention you've made: It's a tailor-made (well, actually it's off the rack) journalistic cliche in any argument against a non-mainstream position to label it as shrill and so forth.
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