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US
/ˈstɹaɪdəntɫi/
]
[ UK /stɹˈaɪdəntli/ ]
[ UK /stɹˈaɪdəntli/ ]
ADVERB
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in a strident manner
the cheap clock ticked stridently
How To Use stridently In A Sentence
- A venerable and hitherto decorous old deacon of Roxbury not only left the church when the hated bass-viol began its accompanying notes, but he stood for a long time outside the church door stridently "caterwauling" at the top of his lungs. Sabbath in Puritan New England
- Nor should the irony of this be overlooked, given Hanson's stridently self-righteous defense of free speech in the face of repressive political correctness.
- I must admit to enjoying it, particularly its stridently progressivist Soviet tone.
- People choose not to buy advertised goods, and even to stridently reject advertising.
- Find for him, Thy Anointed Won, a lefty handwringer who legislates most stridently from the bench, a champion of absurdity, let us see this scoundrel exalted, and then dispatch the Winged Monkey of Thy Perversity to throw his Righteous Wrench into those works! Archive 2009-04-26
- He is stridently opposed to abortion.
- the cheap clock ticked stridently
- The contention that they were stridently opposed to the uprising is robustly disputed.
- He is both stridently laddish and oddly feminine - softly spoken, huge eyes, a coy look when unsure of himself - and this afternoon he is friendly, if a little on edge, his hand trembling from emotion or fatigue.
- The acceptance speeches alternated between the embarrassingly grateful and the stridently self-promotional.