Both Uses of
strident
in
Babbitt
- Zilla was an active, strident, full-blown, high-bosomed blonde.†
Chpt 10 *
- When the other sages of the Pullman smoking-compartment had left them to themselves, Babbitt's voice did not drop into the playful and otherwise offensive tone in which one addresses children but continued its overwhelming and monotonous rumble, and Ted tried to imitate it in his strident tenor: "Gee, dad, you certainly did show up that poor boot when he got flip about the League of Nations!"†
Chpt 19
Definition:
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(strident) unpleasantly forceful -- especially loud and harsh