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• v  utter a shrill cry
• s  having or emitting a high-pitched and sharp tone or tones
  a shrill whistle
  a shrill gaiety
• s  being sharply insistent on being heard
  shrill criticism
• s  of colors that are bright and gaudy
  a shrill turquoise

• She deliberately risked appearing shrill, political and shameless in order to put her opponents in their place and the chattering class may applaud her steely toughness.
• Kingsolver and her family who chip in on the writing are never shrill or scoldy about their project, just quietly convincing, and they make the food in their .
• While Clarke claims that he is "an independent" not driven by partisan motives, it's hard not to read some passages in his book as anything but shrill broadsides.

• shriek
• pipe up
• pipe
• sharp
• strident

News & Articles

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• Animal Planet's Turtleman will attend QS 400
  Perhaps you've seen Ernie Brown Jr. on the Animal Planet series "Call of the Wildman," or heard his shrill battle cry on the commercials. With his banjo-playing buddy Neal and four-legged companion Lolly Dog along for the ride, the Lebanon, Ky., man travels the commonwealth and parts beyond practicing his homespun brand of "live action" wild animal rescue.
  June 27, 2013 - The Cincinnati Enquirer
• Rantoul and Die: Filthy Couch Comedy
  The last Amoralists show I saw, Happy in the Poorhouse , was so shrill that I avenged myself by writing the review in all caps. Therefore, I had expectations lower than the Marianas Trench for Rantoul and Die , another of the group's forays into filthy couch comedy (as opposed to kitc...
  June 25, 2013 - The Village Voice

Quotes

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• Al Gore in MyFOX Providence WNAC
  That phrase may sound shrill to some ears but it is accurate,Gore said at a news conference Sunday.
• Chris Evert in AFP
  Grunting is one thing but the shrill sound that you hear with players nowadays and especially (when) they get louder when they hit a winner, that's the thing that I observe as a player,said Evert, here with golfer husband Greg Norman. "It...
• Harry Reid in FOXNews
  Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said lawmakers will continue to press for reform "in spite of the loud, shrill voices trying to interrupt town hall meetings."