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• s  having or making a high-pitched sound such as that made by a mouse or a rusty hinge

• Morissette's anguished, sometimes screechy voice is the sound of postadolescent independence.
• Minuses: She sounds out of breath at times, the verses don't show off her drama-queen emotional strengths, and Simon is right, she is a bit screechy.
• He's a liberal, but not a screechy partisan.

• screaky
• squeaking
• squeaky
• squealing

News & Articles

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• Roomrunner Sick Zombies on TV Chef in Insane 'Wojtek' Video
  Zombies, secret agents, and celebrity chefs collide in Roomrunner's new music video for "Wojtek," a screechy standout from the Baltimore band's debut album, Ideal Cities ...
  Oct. 14, 2013 - Spin

Quotes

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• Josh Marshall in Los Angeles Times
  I'm familiar with the critique,Marshall said. "I don't feel it has a great deal to do with us, what we are doing. There'sa ton of stuff out there, and a lot of it is screechy and angry and undisciplined. I don't have a problem with it, but...
• Simon Cowell in TransWorldNews (press release)
  Simon called it "erratic and screechy."
• Simon Fuller in Chicago Sun-Times (blog)
  Very erratic, very screechy,said Simon, who thinks she's lost who she was.