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What is another word for strident?

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Loud and harsh in sound

Hostile and aggressive in manner or behavior

Aesthetically or artistically jarring

Making or characterized by a noisy outcry

Very loud or having a high volume

Excessively or unpleasantly self-assertive or ambitious

Moving in a quivering or pulsating manner

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Loud and harsh in sound

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“A strident screech echoes through the woods, shattering the funeral quietude of the forest.”

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Hostile and aggressive in manner or behavior

have chip on shoulder

having a chip on one's shoulder

cavilling^UK

caviling^US

ill-humored^US

quarreling^US

quarrelling^UK

covertly narcissistic

terrorizing^US

terrorising^UK

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“Where have all our strident editorialists and big-mouthed politicians gone?”

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Aesthetically or artistically jarring

“The slightly strident exterior is offset by a splendidly tranquil interior.”

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Making or characterized by a noisy outcry

laying it on the line

straight from the shoulder

out-front

talking turkey

calling spade a spade

not afraid to call a spade a spade

bare-faced

categorical

saying what one thinks

straight to the point

plain-speaking

true to life

to the point

speaking as one finds

on the level

straight-from-the-shoulder

not beating around the bush

flat-out

dinkum

not beating about the bush

speaking straight from the shoulder

not pulling any punches

open-and-shut

telling it like it is

meaning what one says

no beating around the bush

calling a spade a spade

critical

hard-hitting

brief and to the point

not mincing one's words

unfavorable^US

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Very loud or having a high volume

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Excessively or unpleasantly self-assertive or ambitious

not backward in coming forward

having killer instinct

not taking no for an answer

full of get-up-and-go

intensely competitive

focussed^UK

focused^US

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Moving in a quivering or pulsating manner

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