shrill
His daughter's voice came shrilly from the house.
The phone rang shrilly in the hall, making her jump.
"Oh, shut up, the pair of you," Mrs Hatton said shrilly.
Their policies won't solve the problems they shrilly decry.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases Describing qualities of sound
audibly
boomy
chocolatey
chuff
clomp
crackling
ear-splitting
mellifluously
melodically
melodiously
metallically
murmurous
silvery
squeaky
staccato
thready
tinnily
tunefully
tunefulness
tunelessly
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