Adjective, : a screechy door. From Dictionary.com.
Which I think sometimes comes off as kind of screechy, but other times can be very soothing. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2008-01-01] Reference
Last year, people moaned and complained week after week that Carly was "screechy". From Wordnik.com. [Entertainment Weekly's PopWatch] Reference
Because I never wanted to be that screechy soprano. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Dec 4, 2009] Reference
It's a snooze-fest except that his voice is so screechy. From Wordnik.com. [Poll: Dems Maintain Wide Lead Over GOP Despite Kerry Gaffe] Reference
Hillary feeling up and down, loud and screechy - YUCK!!!!. From Wordnik.com. [Debate Alert! Hillary And Obama Campaigns Accept Invite To ABC Debate In Philly] Reference
I heard a sharp screechy sound, and looked across the table. From Wordnik.com. [White Jazz]
She was seen by some men, probably, as too pushy and too screechy. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Mar 20, 2005] Reference
"A bird make a screechy sound like that?" echoed the doubting Eben. From Wordnik.com. [Boy Scouts on a Long Hike Or, To the Rescue in the Black Water Swamps] Reference
Only reason anyone might want to put up with that screechy knownothing. From Wordnik.com. [Think Progress » Obama’s second TSA nominee backs out.] Reference
Our TVs will finally be free of screechy Sharon Osbourne after Saturday!. From Wordnik.com. [X Factor Final Betting Odds – Shayne Ward Odds] Reference
The judges cringed as she performed a screechy rendition of "Proud Mary.". From Wordnik.com. [Death Of A Superfan] Reference
They are trying to defuse a screechy dispute over "race-norming" as well. From Wordnik.com. [The Q-Word Charade] Reference
(Soundbite of music) CHRISTGAU: Maybe, you just don't like screechy synths. From Wordnik.com. [Coming Around to See the Point of The Knife] Reference
They focus grouped preachy & screechy and are pretty confident it's going to kill. From Wordnik.com. [Hillary Hits Obama Over Surrogate's Inability To Name Obama Accomplishment] Reference
But when I blew the trumpet, it was very, like, screechy and I didn't like my sound. From Wordnik.com. [A South African Great, Playing 'To Get Well'] Reference
I can almost hear the screechy fecker wailing "In the NAAAAAME of LOOOOOOOOVE!" now. From Wordnik.com. [What's the worst crime song ever?] Reference
But I found all the voices in Wallace & Gromit unpleasantly screechy and thereby unreal. From Wordnik.com. [It Isn't Groundhog Day, But Ramis' Latest Is a Strange Trip] Reference
And a beautiful voice like Reagan ` s would help, surely, and a screechy voice would not. From Wordnik.com. [Why Lincoln Matters: Today More Than Ever] Reference
The preview was, as all horror film trailers generally are, fast-paced, screechy, and chilling. From Wordnik.com. [Rebecca Serle: Horror at the Movies: Angry About Previews] Reference
And if that's not enough to win you over, get this: he's a vegan, but not even remotely screechy!. From Wordnik.com. [Colleen Werthmann: Democratic Presidential Debate Hottie Rundown!] Reference
The destruction of civil discourse, and its replacement with vilification and screechy namecalling. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2007-02-01] Reference
Note, you want to have someone who has a good clear voice that sounds calm and not screechy or shouty. From Wordnik.com. [Republicans Using Robo-Calling Nationwide to Suppress Vote] Reference
Her little friends got screechy too, in the same way, when they were with her at tense times in the hotel. From Wordnik.com. [Beard] Reference
The vocalist sounded like a screechy version of Robert Smith of the Cure, but in an awkwardly pleasant way. From Wordnik.com. [oatcake Diary Entry] Reference
He looked back in the pen; the wolverine noticed something and lashed the wire, making screechy blood W noises. From Wordnik.com. [The Big Nowhere]
Then he said, in his screechy voice, "By golly! you see I've got two cards to your one, and can win every time.". From Wordnik.com. [Forty Years a Gambler on the Mississippi] Reference
Of course, they could also just as quickly shift gears to screechy electro-punk with songs including "Doe Deer.". From Wordnik.com. [Hot tickets: Crystal Castles, Scissor Sisters, Tears for Fears] Reference
Over two dozen male and female vocalists: flat, screechy, shrill, hoarse -- dud Presley and Patti Page would-be's. From Wordnik.com. [Hollywood Nocturne]
BROWN: Well, I always say that opera chose me, I didn't choose it, because I never wanted to be that screechy soprano. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Dec 25, 2009] Reference
What happened to all those terribly screechy wailing sounds they and TPM made about "suppressing the vote of the people"?. From Wordnik.com. [Obama Campaign: We Won Nevada Caucus -- Based On Delegate Count] Reference
I begged, and told him I was only Huck; but he laughed SUCH a screechy laugh, and roared and cussed, and kept on chasing me up. From Wordnik.com. [The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn] Reference
In the end the screaming bit worked for about 90% of the time, the last 10% of belting out was a bit screechy, and mind numbing for Simon. From Wordnik.com. [Justin Guarini: The Lowdown on Last Night's American Idol] Reference
And then I noticed the non-stop nature of the grating, screechy, insistent yodel of a small child who was just repeating himself endlessly. From Wordnik.com. [wilberteets Diary Entry] Reference
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