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[ skree-chee ] / ˈskri tʃi /
adjective, screech·ier, screech·i·est.like or suggesting screeching. producing screeches: a screechy door. Origin of screechyFirst recorded in 1820–30; screech + -y1 Words nearby screechyscream therapy, scree, screech, screeching, screech owl, screechy, screed, screen, Screen Actors Guild, screenager, screen dump Dictionary.com UnabridgedBased on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020 Example sentences from the Web for screechyIts topics are the predictable pop-culture bellwethers of the day, reheated into screechy mush. Don’t Remember Barbara Walters for ‘The View’|Tim Teeman|April 8, 2014|DAILY BEAST Once again, Pharoah hammers down every screechy, scratchy vocal tic while doing a Rock-sian riff on Romeo and Juliet. Barack Obama and Jay Pharoah’s 7 Best Celebrity Impressions (VIDEO)|Kevin Fallon|September 14, 2012|DAILY BEAST Flo was not just mediocre: she was catastrophically tragic, tone-deaf, screechy and, as Randy Jackson would say, “pitchy, dawg!” Dead Cool: Florence Foster Jenkins|Simon Doonan|July 10, 2010|DAILY BEAST He knew that she was taking violin lessons: he had often heard her screechy fiddling on the stairs and out in the hall. The Goose Man|Jacob Wassermann
Again he laughed in that high-pitched, screechy key of ineffable disdain. An Oregon Girl|Alfred Ernest Rice Her voice is so high and screechy, it cuts your ears; she does not want for wit, and expresses herself well. History of Friedrich II. of Prussia, Vol. XIII. (of XXI.)|Thomas Carlyle Bending her head nearer, Flea coaxed, "What good land, Screechy dear?" From the Valley of the Missing|Grace Miller White What she spoke of was a thing that turned, and made a screechy noise. Walter Pieterse|Multatuli
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