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What does screechy mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word screechy? Here's what it means.

Adjective
  1. Resembling a screech.
  2. Given to screeching.
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Crickets chirped, owls hooted, and cicadas caterwauled in screechy harmony.
Once again, Pharoah hammers down every screechy, scratchy vocal tic while doing a Rock-sian riff on Romeo and Juliet.
The first track opens abruptly with high volume screechy staccato guitars and some guy screaming his guts out.
And if you'd seen the way he got into the song, even in his tone-deaf, screechy manner, you'd fall in love with this song, too.
I thought the actor playing Evita was very good, but she got a bit screechy when she wanted to be loud or put a lot of emphasis on the lines.
Its topics are the predictable pop-culture bellwethers of the day, reheated into screechy mush.

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