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  • adverb In a screeching way; with screeching noises.

Etymologies

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screeching +‎ -ly

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Examples

  • From one crawled screechingly an inchoate thing that gimped on incomplete legs while upon its back a fully aware man, or the top half of one, gripped and tore and pummeled the creature to which it was attached with suicidal violence.

    Perquampi Andrew Edwards 2011

  • Also the sappy scene with all the CSIs in the restaurant at the end made it screechingly obvious that something bad was going to happen.

    Excellent interview with Snoop and Marlo from "The Wire" trinfaneb 2008

  • His voice was/is too whiny/annoying/ear-screechingly discomforting for him to play the role of Tony Stark's foil.

    How Terrence Howard Lost Iron Man 2 | /Film 2008

  • It's very interesting to compare Eric Kleefeld's screechingly over-the-top headline with the actual notes from Pew:

    Pew: Obama Losing White Working Class Dems To Hillary In Landslide 2009

  • It is so screechingly provincial it makes my blood run cold.

    Gordon Brown, Charlie Whelan and Me 2008

  • The screechingly hateful and racist Kathy "Five Feet of Fury" Shaidle.

    Archive 2008-08-01 LuLu 2008

  • When visiting the U.S.A. earlier this year, I was astonished at the screechingly hysterical coverage of the subprime mortgage collapse, which dominated the televised news bulletins to the exclusion of every other topic except Jeremiah Wright and the New York State Governor's downfall.

    hysteria and noise Dymphna 2008

  • And to make this Spyder even more tire-screechingly sporty, there's gobs of torque on the low end of the power curve, so you can peel out better than your neighbor.

    Road Test: Eclipse Spyder GT 2007

  • It was a win-win really, because the show earnt Celine Dion over $100 million while simultaneously keeping her too busy to hawk her screechingly overbearing power ballads to anyone else as a result.

    Celine Dion Goes Back To Las Vegas, So Be Careful 2007

  • "America the Beautiful" is a pretty song without screechingly horrific high notes.

    American Dreamz mariness 2006

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