shrilly
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English
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]- Rhymes: -ɪli
Etymology 1
[edit]Adverb
[edit]shrilly (comparative more shrilly, superlative most shrilly)
- In a shrill manner.
- 1948, Alec H. Chisholm, Bird Wonders of Australia, page 96:
- [T]he thwarted Hawk circled above, calling shrilly.
Alternative forms
[edit]Translations
[edit]in a shrill manner
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Etymology 2
[edit]Adjective
[edit]shrilly (comparative more shrilly, superlative most shrilly)
- 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 […]