cawing

adjective

Definition of cawingnext
as in strident

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for cawing
  1. strident
  2. raucous
  3. screeching
  4. cacophonous
  5. abrasive
  6. jarring
  7. discordant
Adjective
  • The next day, while the country was still overcome by grief and anger, a song appeared on Indian WhatsApp groups, sung by a strident female voice.
    Robert F. Worth, The Atlantic, 2 Jan. 2025
  • Through its strident positivity, PST ART glorifies speed and risk-taking (not to say recklessness) in the service of progress and discovery.
    Michaëla de Lacaze Mohrmann, Artforum, 1 Jan. 2025
Definition of strident
Adjective
  • This impulse is amplified by the decentralized American system—especially its free media and raucous Congress—which empowers voices, including those of diaspora populations, businesses, human rights organizations, and the national security bureaucracy, to advocate for various actions overseas.
    Michael Beckley, Foreign Affairs, 7 Jan. 2025
  • Otherwise, the Ravens celebration that followed the win was neither raucous nor lengthy.
    Jeff Zrebiec, The Athletic, 4 Jan. 2025
Definition of raucous
Adjective
  • Sadly, the Ferrari’s promising racing career came to a screeching halt when French gendarmes seized the car at the Paris Orly airport parking lot—something about a dispute between Monsieur Fayen and the French tax authorities.
    Howard Walker, Robb Report, 23 Dec. 2024
  • DeGeneres has largely steered clear of the spotlight since toxic workplace allegations in 2020 brought her eponymous talk show to a screeching halt two years later.
    Jami Ganz, New York Daily News, 12 Dec. 2024
Definition of screeching
Adjective
  • There is a primordial quality to the woods that oscillates between cacophonous forest chatter and eerie silence in the space of a ridge or two.
    Laura Lancaster, Outdoor Life, 2 Jan. 2025
  • Hundreds of revelers roar at once, thrusting homemade torches into the freezing air and banging pans together with cacophonous glee.
    Amiel Stanek, Bon Appétit, 26 Nov. 2024
Definition of cacophonous
Adjective
  • Trump’s public personality is as abrasive as Reagan’s was genial, as vindictive as Reagan’s was magnanimous.
    Niall Ferguson, Foreign Affairs, 7 Jan. 2025
  • In Roeland Park and Shawnee, residents must clear sidewalks within 48 hours — but if removing the snow or ice isn’t possible, sprinkling an abrasive material like sand or salt over the sidewalk area counts as complying with city rules.
    Joseph Hernandez, Kansas City Star, 6 Jan. 2025
Definition of abrasive
Adjective
  • Fireworks, something that once filled me with excitement and joy as a child, now felt jarring and wrong.
    Edward Buckles Jr., TIME, 7 Jan. 2025
  • According to Arquette, those jarring moments could happen to anyone of us, at any time.
    Kevin Lynn, Newsweek, 7 Jan. 2025
Definition of jarring
Adjective
  • The presence of the disruptive once and future President alongside all four of his living predecessors was as discordant as any moment at an American state funeral, with its grand rituals meant to unify and salve, could be.
    Susan B. Glasser, The New Yorker, 9 Jan. 2025
  • The moment of levity was discordant with Rose's speech.
    Melissa Brown, The Tennessean, 3 June 2024
Definition of discordant
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