Crossword-Solution: SCREECHING
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Screeching | p. pr. & vb. n. | of Screech |
We have 17 clues for the answer “SCREECHING”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Noise from boobooks | 1 answer |
| Raspy | 21 answers |
| unmelodious | 24 answers |
| exasperating | 25 answers |
| Rasping | 35 answers |
| Brusque | 40 answers |
| Piercing | 42 answers |
| Hoarse | 43 answers |
| Irritating | 43 answers |
| Jarring | 43 answers |
| shrill | 44 answers |
| inharmonious | 45 answers |
| Strident | 47 answers |
| Grating | 49 answers |
| Abrasive | 51 answers |
| Annoying | 65 answers |
| Discordant | 68 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
AERET
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with SCREECHING (5)
The blue jays were fighting and screeching in the cottonwood tree outside her window, as they always did, and she could hear the old Baptist deacon across the street calling his chickens, as she had heard him do every summer morning since she could remember.
Their prodigious bounds and the shrill, screeching purr of their uncanny mouths were well calculated to confuse and terrorize their prey, so that as two of them leaped simultaneously from either side, the mighty sweep of those awful tails met with no resistance and two more green Martians went down to an ignoble death.
They say: “Singing! That wasn’t singing; that was the wailing, screeching of third-rate obscurities, palmed off on us in the interest of economy.” Well, I ought to have recognized the sign—the old, sure sign that has never failed me in matters of art.
Jim was gone! I set up a shout—and then another—and then another one; and run this way and that in the woods, whooping and screeching; but it warn’t no use—old Jim was gone.
For hours absolute quiet reigned in the little clearing, except as it was broken by the discordant notes of brilliantly feathered parrots, or the screeching and twittering of the thousand jungle birds flitting ceaselessly amongst the vivid orchids and flamboyant blossoms which festooned the myriad, moss-covered branches of the forest kings.
Quotes with SCREECHING (3)
And soon we were just rolling around on the ground, cursing and screeching and ripping out handfuls of hair. Without super hearing, I wouldn't have heard Zeb whisper, "This is the coolest thing I have ever seen.""Maybe they'll get muddy," Dick said. "Please, Lord, let them get muddy.
I remember, around age ten, beholding the scene in The Shining in which the hot young woman whom Jack Nicholson is lewdly embracing in the haunted hotel bathroom ages rapidly in his arms, screeching from nubile chick to putrefying corpse within seconds. I understood that the scene was supposed to represent some kind of primal horror. This was The Shining, after all. But the image of that decaying, cackling crone, her arms outstretched in desire toward the man who is backing a…
[Y]ou possess all the attributes of a demagogue; a screeching, horrible voice, a perverse, crossgrained nature and the language of the market-place. In you all is united which is needful for governing.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: NYT.
Used 1 time in crossword archives (1980).