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  • Going off on a rabid rant at your detractors is going to make you look like an asstard and just rally them to the cause of mockery and mob howling-screechiness.

    Archive 2007-01-01 Hal Duncan 2007

  • Going off on a rabid rant at your detractors is going to make you look like an asstard and just rally them to the cause of mockery and mob howling-screechiness.

    The Dufus Dollar Hal Duncan 2007

  • But there was also, universally, a disgust with the screechiness and hyperbole of public life.

    Where The Anger Went 2008

  • One virago-looking Secesh asseverated, in a voice of unearthly screechiness, that they had lots of "_Southern friends_, and _millions of money_."

    Incidents of the War: Humorous, Pathetic, and Descriptive Alf Burnett

  • The city announced this month that its Taxi of Tomorrow, the Nissan NV200 van, will be equipped with the latest in antihonk technology: a so-called low-annoyance horn to reduce screechiness.

    The Seattle Times 2011

  • That makes for an angrily discordant tone to political discourse, with screechiness at its most ear-splitting in the United States, where the Tea Party has assailed the political establishment.

    Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion 2010

  • Natthaweeranuch Thongmee as Jane also does a competent job, but the Thai language isn’t a very melodious sound and because of this I spent the beginning of the film cringing at the screechiness of her voice.

    Shutter (2004) 2010

  • I still can’t get past the screechiness of her voice to notice anything in the video.

    Solange's 'Sandcastle Disco' video: Choose your favorite flaw! | EW.com 2008

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