0 A strident sound is loud, unpleasant, and rough: --
People are put off by his strident voice.
1 expressing or expressed in forceful language that does not try to avoid upsetting other people: --
They are becoming increasingly strident in their criticism of government economic policy.
On one side, there is the folklore supporting a romantic and sometimes strident linguistic nationalism.
These features were vocalic, consonantal, compact, diffuse, low, stressed, nasal, continuous, voiced, sharp, and strident.
Or, affronts to dignity may produce strident reactions that harm patient/family-professional relationships and impair healthcare goals.
As it appears here, the chord is strident, suggesting a link to the world outdoors.
Even casuist and hermeneutic approaches, known for their strident rejection of principalism, fail to expand the parameters of the case itself.
Communism was by now always and everywhere "godless," making the presence of a strident atheist intrinsically problematic.
They emanate from a fair-minded approach to strident debates-written, if you will, from the center.
What is more, that such exasperation was often expressed in strident terms.