shrilly

Etymology 1

shrill + -ly

adv

  1. In a shrill manner.
    [T]he thwarted Hawk circled above, calling shrilly. 1948, Alec H. Chisholm, Bird Wonders of Australia, page 96

Etymology 2

shrill + -y

adj

  1. Somewhat shrill.
    The night—its silence—its rest, was rent in twain by a savage, a sharp, a shrilly sound that ran from end to end of Thornfield Hall. 1847, Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre
    Yet there they sat, as stones, silent and still. / Sudden a voice, a feeble shrilly voice, / Rose from the inner tent […] 1860, Robert Stafford, Enoch, a Poem in Three Books

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