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high-keyed

[ hahy-keed ]

adjective

  1. very nervous or excitable; high-strung.


high-keyed

adjective

  1. having a high pitch; shrill
  2. highly strung
  3. bright in colour
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Example Sentences

It was the high-keyed wailing of this same man-child wanting his bottle, but it eluded Bud completely.

Figure to yourself this eager little chap: high-keyed, timid, fervid: something of a buffoon, always a victim of his perceptions.

So with high-keyed, feminine laughter and much dust, passed the exploring party from the Rocking R.

The roar was still steady, high-keyed, relentless.117 A myriad new voices seemed to have joined the screaming tumult.

I was too busy with my own troubles to see what happened to him, so could only judge from the tremolo of his high-keyed cursing.

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