shrilly

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English

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Etymology 1

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From shrill +‎ -ly.

Adverb

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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

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From shrill +‎ -y.

Adjective

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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 []