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strident
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"My good friend Henry," he said stridently, the strangeness of that notion hanging there for us.†
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In media photographs and video he appeared to me as an ambitious minority politician and what being one had always meant-the adjutant interest groups, the unwavering agenda, the stridency, the righteousness.†
The boys know it, too, they've learned this well, and they'll all wave goodbye with it, stridently, strong-armed, father-son, with the bombast of Americans, not yet knowing that this is the last language they will share.†
"No way!" he answers stridently.†

Definitions:

(1) (strident)
unpleasantly forceful when expressing opinions; or loud and harsh
(2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)
Less commonly, strident can refer to a voice or sound that hisses as when pronouncing s or sh.