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comparative more strident, superlative most strident
Loud; shrill, piercing, high-pitched; rough-sounding examples
Grating or obnoxious quotations examples
If Demandt's essay served as a strident example of the German desire for normalcy, a more subtle example was provided by a brief allohistorical depiction of a Nazi victory in World War II written by German historian Michael Salewski in 1999.
2005 May 23, Gavriel D. Rosenfeld, The World Hitler Never Made: Alternate History and the Memory of Nazism, Cambridge University Press, page 182
(nonstandard) Vigorous; making strides quotations
Under David Taylor's stewardship, the SFA has made strident progress.
2003 November 6, Stuart Cosgrove, “Taylor slagging Saddam shame.”, in Daily Record, Glasgow, archived from the original on 12 November 2012
plural stridents
(linguistics) One of a class of s-like fricatives produced by an airstream directed at the upper teeth. examples