screeching

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Synonyms for screeching

a high-pitched noise resembling a human cry

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Each week this ranting prophetess stumbled down the street, screechingly warning Frankie Howerd of doom and disaster to come.
Sharing an evening with this screechingly fervid audience, no one would ever know that the final "Idol" marked the end of the lowest-rated season on record for gloomy broadcasters.
calling out to boyfriends often or screechingly enough.
The Art of Breaking Up (15) Screechingly manic and leadenly unfunny French sex farce involving goldigging suitors, opera divas and the usual bag of deceptions and misunderstandings.
There were the wide-ranging chats, at his instigation, in or around his LSE office--Peter's erudition and acuity were dazzling to me, and he could be screechingly funny when he so chose.
The nose-picking, worm-eating, nappy-clad babies go on a cruise, get shipwrecked and wash up on an island where intrepid wildlife film-maker Sir Nigel Thornberry and his screechingly loud family are in pursuit of leopards.