Wonderful Word Wednesday: Strident

It’s Wonderful Word Wednesdays! Here’s a fun one I stumbled upon.
strident
adjective
1.) making or having a harsh sound; grating; creaking: strident insects; strident hinges.
2. having a shrill, irritating quality or character: a strident tone in his writings.
3. Linguistics . (in distinctive feature analysis) characterized acoustically by noise of relatively high intensity, as sibilants, labiodental and uvular fricatives, and most affricates.
Example Sentence: Strident insects tsked as Matt and the graftings walked through the woods.
Cicada. These bugs can be really annoying.
Have you seen or used this word before? What do you think of it?
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