shrilly

English

Pronunciation
  • Rhymes: -ɪli

Etymology 1

shrill +‎ -ly

Adverb

shrilly (comparative more shrilly, superlative most shrilly)

  1. In a shrill manner.
    • 1948, Alec H. Chisholm, Bird Wonders of Australia, page 96:
      [T]he thwarted Hawk circled above, calling shrilly.
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Etymology 2

shrill +‎ -y

Adjective

shrilly (comparative more shrilly, superlative most shrilly)

  1. Somewhat shrill.
    • 1847, Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre:
      The night—its silence—its rest, was rent in twain by a savage, a sharp, a shrilly sound that ran from end to end of Thornfield Hall.
    • 1860, Robert Stafford, Enoch, a Poem in Three Books:
      Yet there they sat, as stones, silent and still. / Sudden a voice, a feeble shrilly voice, / Rose from the inner tent […]
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