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: --
Incidentally, it was interesting to note that those demands for cuts were put much less stridently than they have been in another place and previously here.
That being so, is it wise to talk so stridently about resisting encroachments on our national sovereignty?
The strongest policy is not always the policy for which partisans call the most stridently.
But even allowing for this style, plus the challenging substance, surely sections of the scientific establishment could have reacted a little less stridently.
There are numerous bodies in this country which set out to represent, quite stridently at times, the interests of those whom they identify as consumers.
I do not mean that they should be eternally and stridently asking for "women's lib", but they should have the rights that men enjoy.
It is to public opinion in this country and the world outside that we need to address our warnings insistently and stridently.
In other places it is more stridently described as "the surrender of arms".
