screechy

[ skree-chee ]

/ ˈskri tʃi /

like or suggesting screeching.

producing screeches: a screechy door.

Origin of screechy

First recorded in 1820–30; screech + -y¹

Its topics are the predictable pop-culture bellwethers of the day, reheated into screechy mush.

Don’t Remember Barbara Walters for ‘The View’ |Tim Teeman |April 8, 2014 |DAILY BEAST
Once again, Pharoah hammers down every screechy, scratchy vocal tic while doing a Rock-sian riff on Romeo and Juliet.

Barack Obama and Jay Pharoah’s 7 Best Celebrity Impressions (VIDEO) |Kevin Fallon |September 14, 2012 |DAILY BEAST
Flo was not just mediocre: she was catastrophically tragic, tone-deaf, screechy and, as Randy Jackson would say, “pitchy, dawg!”

Dead Cool: Florence Foster Jenkins |Simon Doonan |July 10, 2010 |DAILY BEAST
He knew that she was taking violin lessons: he had often heard her screechy fiddling on the stairs and out in the hall.

The Goose Man |Jacob Wassermann

Again he laughed in that high-pitched, screechy key of ineffable disdain.

An Oregon Girl |Alfred Ernest Rice
Her voice is so high and screechy, it cuts your ears; she does not want for wit, and expresses herself well.

History of Friedrich II. of Prussia, Vol. XIII. (of XXI.) |Thomas Carlyle
Bending her head nearer, Flea coaxed, "What good land, Screechy dear?"

From the Valley of the Missing |Grace Miller White
What she spoke of was a thing that turned, and made a screechy noise.

Walter Pieterse |Multatuli

screechy

/ (ˈskriːtʃɪ) /

loud and shrill