Adjective : strident insects; strident hinges. ,a strident tone in his writings. From Dictionary.com.
But her parents disagreed -- disagreed stridently. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Oct 28, 2006] Reference
"I told you it wasn't my fault," she said stridently. From Wordnik.com. [Fox Evil]
As he spoke, Seth howled stridently outside the tent. From Wordnik.com. [Eclipse]
“No,” Dale said, more stridently than he should have. From Wordnik.com. [A Winter Haunting]
KURTZ: Things perceived as being stridently anti-Catholic. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Feb 11, 2007] Reference
Oppositionism - stating stridently what is wrong - is easy. From Wordnik.com. [Disgruntled Labour] Reference
The vines of the plants reared up, their bells ringing stridently. From Wordnik.com. [The Source of Magic]
Now little Solina stirred, lifted her head and began to wail stridently. From Wordnik.com. [Renegade's Magic]
However, they disagreed with John McCain stridently on almost every issue. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jun 18, 2008] Reference
They know these things even as they stridently disagree with his policies. From Wordnik.com. [Mitchell Bard: Is the GOP Looking Out for You?] Reference
Pilot Fish brayed stridently, reared and pawed the air and everyone gasped. From Wordnik.com. [Noble House]
Yet he almost stridently refuses to designate a successor, or even a No. 2. From Wordnik.com. [How Eisner Saved Disney--And Himself] Reference
BAXTER: Well, he is one of the most stridently anti-immigration Republicans. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Mar 8, 2008] Reference
Another influential disciple was Tob-den La-ma (rtogs ldan bla ma), a stridently. From Wordnik.com. [The Shuk-den affair: Origins of a Controversy (Part I)] Reference
Remembering the man in the bed, he added less stridently, "Nothing personal, Mallory.". From Wordnik.com. [Dirge]
What I hear being said repeatedly, stridently, angrily, is - do not ask any questions!. From Wordnik.com. [Speech at the Opening Session of the 13th International Aids Conference] Reference
They came to his table singing a louder song more stridently than the one he heard at a distance. From Wordnik.com. [Corpus of a Siam Mosquito] Reference
"No, no it wasn't Grey, though he's a pain, ill-mannered and stridently anti-everything of value.". From Wordnik.com. [Noble House]
The claxon sounded stridently, and the inflectionless voice of the robopilot said: "Sixty seconds.". From Wordnik.com. [Attrition] Reference
Its members resisted stridently an attempt to write a direct primary plank into the party platform. From Wordnik.com. [Theodore Roosevelt and His Times] Reference
I mean, this is the last guy on the planet you would think would write a stridently anti-Bush book. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript May 30, 2008] Reference
Are Osborne's little hints enough, or should he more stridently make the case for a low tax economy?. From Wordnik.com. [Osborne on tax] Reference
His acceptance speech was in parts stridently populist but in others presented Obama as the great conciliator. From Wordnik.com. [Gordon Brown, Charlie Whelan and Me] Reference
The same innuendos pass back and forth between the Mona Lisa and Michelangelo's stridently energetic male nudes. From Wordnik.com. [The Lost Battles by Jonathan Jones] Reference
And, finally, on Iran, they are vehemently and very stridently defending their right to a nuclear program -- Jim. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jan 23, 2007] Reference
Now the Obama administration has taken another step to address the rest of the world, straightforwardly, not stridently. From Wordnik.com. [Wade Henderson, Esq.: The U.S. Human Rights Report: Courage and Candor Are Signs of Strength] Reference
But her position on the war has been less, say stridently anti - war than some her opponents, particularly John Edwards. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jun 11, 2007] Reference
She's also stridently anti-abortion, recently giving birth to her fifth child who she knew beforehand would have Down syndrome. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jun 24, 2008] Reference
My point: MI5 doesn't arrest or detain anyone, is stridently neutral on this, andit is disingenuous of Brown to hint otherwise. From Wordnik.com. [Gordon Brown, Charlie Whelan and Me] Reference
In the case of Private Tillman, of course, his family has long been a very stridently opposed to how the Army handled that case. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Apr 24, 2007] Reference
Then you heard him, I think he was doing a radio interview with Don Imus, and he didn't come out quite as stridently against it. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Feb 16, 2004] Reference
However, stridently the Tories oppose ID cards it is hard to imagine David Cameron or David Davis indulging in civil disobedience. From Wordnik.com. [Gordon Brown, Charlie Whelan and Me] Reference
When it comes to the military budget, however, peacenik right and left are on the same side, stridently against the budget-busting center. From Wordnik.com. [Left & Right Against War] Reference
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