0 forcefully, and in language that does not try to avoid upsetting other people:
She has always stridently denied the accusations against her.
1 in a way that sounds loud, unpleasant, and rough in sound:
Being stridently feminist, I had more than a few arguments with my boyfriend.
At times they seem intoxicated with their own moral outrage, and they express it stridently.
The singer was trying too hard, pushing her voice too stridently.
Stridently he sings "Three Blind Mice."
Some local chiefs responded positively to these efforts to reshape their political and cultural authority, while others stridently opposed interference.
A few other liberal nationalists subsequently took up his cause, some more stridently than he, but none achieved any deep impact.
