What's the difference between blatant and strident?

Blatant


Definition:

  • (a.) Bellowing, as a calf; bawling; brawling; clamoring; disagreeably clamorous; sounding loudly and harshly.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) "The proposed 'reform' is designed to legitimise this blatantly unfair, police state practice, while leaving the rest of the criminal procedure law as misleading decoration," said Professor Jerome Cohen, an expert on China at New York University's School of Law.
  • (2) So when did audiences become so deferential to a release strategy blatantly motivated by naked financial gain?
  • (3) There's no doubt Twitter is, for those who are into that kind of thing, a first-class social networking medium (the proof: pretty much every other social networking site, including Facebook, has tried to buy it and, having failed, adopted a whole raft of blatantly Twitter-like features of their own).
  • (4) In the first debate, Obama left Romney's blatantly false assertions and attacks go unchecked.
  • (5) While Chinese media have not spelt out Zhou's woes explicitly, the hints have grown more blatant by the month, with some identifying him via his family relationships.
  • (6) "It is a blatant attempt to cover up the truth about Labour's cuts."
  • (7) Its coverage was so vindictive and blatantly unfair that it succeeded in winning sympathy for the prime minister, not an easy thing to do these days.
  • (8) Updated at 4.58pm BST 4.46pm BST Half time: Shakhter 1-0 Celtic 45 mins Mouyokolo does the most blatant of bodychecks on Finonchenko around the half-way line and gets his name in the yellow book for his troubles.
  • (9) MPs said the group's decision to target some of the UK's most prominent Muslim communities was a blatant attempt to provoke mayhem and disorder.
  • (10) Pro-government activists blatantly threatened people and newspaper offices were attacked.
  • (11) Other transactions are more blatantly criminal: Eritreans, who with Syrians and Afghans make up the majority of migrants attempting to cross the Mediterranean, are often driven “for free” from Khartoum in Sudan to Ajdabiya on the Libyan coast, where they are locked up and tortured until relatives pay a ransom.
  • (12) "This was a blatant and outrageous attempt to suborn a member of parliament," said Mr Galloway.
  • (13) He says the paper also falsely alleged that he "has told blatant lies in an attempt to cover up his corrupt dealings" with Misick.
  • (14) Triggs appeared before a Senate estimates committee hearing on Tuesday for the first time since the prime minister, Tony Abbott, argued the commission’s inquiry into children in detention was a “blatantly partisan, politicised exercise” or a “stitch-up” against the Coalition government.
  • (15) Ing concedes she is hardly a fan of a man she accuses of a "blatant and obscene lack of ethics", but rejects the accusation that the film is anti-Thaksin propaganda: her use of red, for instance, was decided long before it became associated with his redshirts .
  • (16) It was claimed that this emphasis on troops from the "new Commonwealth" was intended to promote "community cohesion" in the UK – leading to accusations in Australia of "blatant politicisation".
  • (17) Blatant carelessness, misuse or improper maintenance of equipment, and intoxication are analyzed as contributory factors.
  • (18) Three minutes later a dithering David Edgar allowed Callum Wilson to bully him out of possession before blatantly tugging his shirt.
  • (19) Blount gets them three on first down, the Patriots look like they're trying to take my advice here, and on second down Brady throws to (okay I'm going to blatantly cut-and-paste this one) Michael Hoomananawuni for15 yards.
  • (20) They ranged from the “hmm” to the blatant to the eye-wateringly awful: ‘Hair twirling’ I recall once the suggestion that I ask a question of another team, in a very airy and innocent manner, hair-twirling and all, to try and get a more favourable answer than previously.

Strident


Definition:

  • (a.) Characterized by harshness; grating; shrill.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The government, too, is keen to strike a conciliatory note, at least compared with the strident tones of the Iron Lady's day.
  • (2) "For a lot of people in poorer neighbourhoods we are liberators," crowed Yiannis Lagos, one of 18 MPs from the stridently patriot "popular nationalist movement" to enter the 300-seat house in June.
  • (3) We must also parallel our strident disapproval of misconduct with an objective exploration of the dynamics of both parties and the human commonality of sexual feelings.
  • (4) In private, the UK’s position has been less strident, according to Girling, and sources say that the UK supported some package objectives, despite reservations about their binding elements.
  • (5) In recent years O'Brien has been known for taking a more strident tone.
  • (6) Michael Meacher MP Labour, Oldham West and Royton • How dare Norman Warner and Jack O'Sullivan denigrate the NHS in such strident terms?
  • (7) George Osborne loosed his most strident rhetoric yet against environmental regulation in his autumn statement , slamming green policies as a "burden" and a "ridiculous cost" to British businesses, in a fillip to the right wing of his party.
  • (8) "The popular verdict clearly renders the bailout deal null," said the politician, whose stridently anti-austerity coalition of the radical left, known as Syriza, sprung the surprise of the weekend's poll, coming in second with 16.8% of the vote.
  • (9) Without such efforts, it appears that patient care quality will be the most likely aspect of health care to suffer in the future--a result against which all health care professionals should stridently guard.
  • (10) But its strident emotionalism and improv-style acting evidently hit the spot with a significant portion of the jury.
  • (11) The strident tone was illustrated by a startling public rebuff to Barack Obama.
  • (12) Following disturbing reports from human rights organisations such as Amnesty and Human Rights Watch, as well as the strident campaigning of the International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC), Fifa’s secretary general, Jérôme Valcke, promised to hold Qatar to account.
  • (13) "I seem to be perceived as aggressive and strident and I don't actually think I am strident and aggressive.
  • (14) McKinney had allowed himself to be photographed beside strident anti-abortion campaigners – and paid for it.
  • (15) I think a lot of people might think his work is stridently dissonant or painful on the ears.
  • (16) The concessions didn't go far enough to satisfy one of the most strident opponents, Open Book Alliance, a group that includes Google's rivals Microsoft, Yahoo and Amazon.
  • (17) She is keen to use her tenure to promote the importance of GPs and offer ideas to help keep the NHS working well in difficult times, but in a less strident, more diplomatic, way than her predecessor.
  • (18) But Trump isn’t just pushing the field to talk about immigration in more strident terms.
  • (19) Malloch, a businessman who stridently supported Brexit ahead of the vote in June, is said to have been interviewed for the post by Trump.
  • (20) Leaders were more stridently at odds than ever before in the 30-month euro crisis.