单词	stridency
释义	stridentstri‧dent /ˈstraɪdənt/ adjective Word Origin WORD ORIGINstrident Origin: 1600-1700 Latin present participle of stridere ‘to make a rough unpleasant noise’ Examples EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES strident critics the strident demands of the American media EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS But the older Matthew Arnold has little with which to correct the strident exaggeration of youth. In reality, taking ownership of benefits and breakthroughs is pitched at a lower and less strident key. Instead, they will be replaced with a magazine with a less strident and more caring title-Dialog. Middle-class moralists might be ardent, even strident, but working-class patterns continued to be remarkably resistant and independent. One may hope that this forceful advocacy can remain in most instances persuasive and considered rather than strident. There was much humour, of a strident, bitter sort. Collocations COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSADVERB► more · The Brotherhood provided the moral climate in which more strident cultures could flourish.· Her own children were much more strident.· The Dreikaiserbund was again renewed in 1884, but panslavism was becoming more strident. ► most · The most strident noise was the beep-beep of small motor-scooters which were becoming increasingly popular. 1forceful and determined, especially in a way that is offensive or annoying:  strident criticism2a strident sound or voice is loud and unpleasant:  the strident calls of seagulls—stridently adverb—stridency noun [uncountable]
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