trumpetlike

adjective

Definition of trumpetlikenext
as in shrill

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for trumpetlike
  1. shrill
  2. strident
  3. clear
  4. brazen
  5. vociferous
  6. raucous
  7. harsh
  8. obstreperous
Adjective
  • Like, watched it all the way through from the shrill opening filled with obnoxious kids to the leadenly staged slapstick climax?
    Keith Phipps, Vulture, 5 Dec. 2024
  • Further down the road, another piper — just playing to play — is sending his shrill notes out into the night sky.
    Sebastian Stafford-Bloor, The Athletic, 5 July 2024
Definition of shrill
Adjective
  • Miranda, however, wears a sheath of strident red skin-tight sequins, with a crimson damask coat arranged just so over her shoulders.
    Hamish Bowles, Vogue, 6 Dec. 2024
  • What attracted people in from the mid-nineties through 2011, when Giant Robot published its final issue, was its mixture of arrogance—the sense that it was made by people with a strident sense of taste—but also curiosity.
    Hua Hsu, The New Yorker, 24 Nov. 2024
Definition of strident
Adjective
  • Hawaii and Alaska became states around 20 years after the amendment was first sent, but all have avoided making their support for the anti-child labor law clear.
    Gordon G. Chang, Newsweek, 12 Dec. 2024
  • The retail landscape has been anything but stable recently, and one thing is clear: The days of stores existing purely as places to buy products are over.
    Stephan Schambach, Forbes, 12 Dec. 2024
Definition of clear
Adjective
  • Chin Jinping, 61, could face anywhere between no prison time and five years behind bars as well as the possibility of losing his U.S. citizenship after admitting his role in the brazen Chinese spying scheme.
    John Annese, New York Daily News, 18 Dec. 2024
  • Luigi Mangione, the suspect accused in the killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, is set to appear Thursday at an extradition hearing in Pennsylvania after Manhattan prosecutors filed a slew of new charges related to the brazen attack.
    Christopher Cann, USA TODAY, 18 Dec. 2024
Definition of brazen
Adjective
  • In 1972, Muhammad Ali was scheduled to compete in South Africa, but a vociferous campaign dissuaded him from doing so.
    Arash Azizi, The Atlantic, 20 Nov. 2024
  • But in 2014, Amira Hass, Haaretz’s correspondent in Ramallah and a vociferous critic of the Israeli occupation, was kicked out of an event at Bir Zeit University by two professors.
    Arash Azizi, The Atlantic, 20 Nov. 2024
Definition of vociferous
Adjective
  • While Queen seemed resistant to the crowd’s raucous support of the home team, Willard seemed to acknowledge that the first away game from Xfinity Center in College Park not involving a neutral venue impacted the players.
    Edward Lee, Baltimore Sun, 8 Dec. 2024
  • In the wake of the Kennedy assassination, many sporting events were called off, and the raucous, patriotic annual match between the two service academies nearly met the same fate.
    Eli Wizevich, Smithsonian Magazine, 7 Dec. 2024
Definition of raucous
Adjective
  • The corps’ push for additional benefits coincided with a harsh realization for the British Army: For white men, service in the West Indies was viewed as a death sentence due to the high risk of disease.
    Kinsey Gidick, Smithsonian Magazine, 12 Dec. 2024
  • This is especially key as bitcoin has surged to $100,000 , meaning that the earliest holders with the lowest basis could be facing harsh taxes on sale.
    Darla Mercado, CFP®, CNBC, 11 Dec. 2024
Definition of harsh
Adjective
  • Making clear that any future conflict would end with the reunification of the entire peninsula under the South’s authority should increase the North’s restraint, as well as reinforce China’s efforts to rein in its obstreperous ally.
    Richard Haass, Foreign Affairs, 3 Apr. 2013
  • Featuring bodies stacked like cords of wood and a bloated S.S. guard dangling from an iron hook, the spread was an obstreperous incursion among the kind of fashion and perfume ads that Miller had once shot or appeared in.
    Chris Wiley, The New Yorker, 10 Jan. 2024
Definition of obstreperous
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trumpets

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