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as in darkened
being without light or without much light
we stood staring into the pitchy dark forest, trying to determine what had made the strange cry
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Recent Examples of pitchy
Here are the spacey, medieval, and occasionally pitchy highs, lows, and whoas of the evening.
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Justin Curto, Vulture, 12 Sep. 2024
But that side stage wasn’t far enough away for her horrendously pitchy singing (especially compared to the talented Swims).
—Justin Curto, Vulture, 12 Sep. 2024
Unlike, say, Fergie's take on the song, which went viral after being intentionally/unintentionally different, Andress was pitchy, slurred her words, and appeared genuinely out of it.
—Elizabeth Logan, Glamour, 16 July 2024
Mindy fears performing after her viral, pitchy moment, but theater fans know that Park would never shy away from the stage.
—Ariana Brockington, refinery29.com, 2 Oct. 2020
The cast’s singing can be pitchy against the recorded backing tracks of Justin J. Scarlat’s bouncy original songs.
—Matthew J. Palm, orlandosentinel.com, 16 May 2021
The only real performance misstep is Wain’s singing voice, which gets a little pitchy and hard to follow.
—Vulture, 27 May 2022
The singing is occasionally pitchy, the staging feels a bit haphazard, and the presentation is downright low-budget by modern-day standards.
—Paul Grein, Billboard, 29 July 2022
Kelly was worried because there were a lot of pitchy moments.
—Maggie Fremont, EW.com, 5 Oct. 2021
Justin Curto, Vulture, 12 Sep. 2024
But that side stage wasn’t far enough away for her horrendously pitchy singing (especially compared to the talented Swims).
—Justin Curto, Vulture, 12 Sep. 2024
Unlike, say, Fergie's take on the song, which went viral after being intentionally/unintentionally different, Andress was pitchy, slurred her words, and appeared genuinely out of it.
—Elizabeth Logan, Glamour, 16 July 2024
Mindy fears performing after her viral, pitchy moment, but theater fans know that Park would never shy away from the stage.
—Ariana Brockington, refinery29.com, 2 Oct. 2020
The cast’s singing can be pitchy against the recorded backing tracks of Justin J. Scarlat’s bouncy original songs.
—Matthew J. Palm, orlandosentinel.com, 16 May 2021
The only real performance misstep is Wain’s singing voice, which gets a little pitchy and hard to follow.
—Vulture, 27 May 2022
The singing is occasionally pitchy, the staging feels a bit haphazard, and the presentation is downright low-budget by modern-day standards.
—Paul Grein, Billboard, 29 July 2022
Kelly was worried because there were a lot of pitchy moments.
—Maggie Fremont, EW.com, 5 Oct. 2021
Recent Examples of Synonyms for pitchy
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Somehow, the two never ran out of coordinating looks—Ariana Grande in shades of pink, white, and yellow, and Cynthia Erivo in black and green.Hannah Jackson, Vogue, 27 Dec. 2024
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The pebbled leather piece is available in classic hues like black, cognac, and deep cherry red.Wendy Vazquez, Southern Living, 27 Dec. 2024
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Compared to the original cultivars, the newer cultivars offered a variety of advantages, including sturdiness, longer flowering, earlier flowering, dwarfism, bigger bracts, darker green foliage, and beyond.Norman Ellstrand and Nathan Ellstrand / Made by History, TIME, 23 Dec. 2024
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Advertisement Sometime in the wee hours Sunday morning, the lights over the speedway went dark for the last time.Kevin Baxter, Los Angeles Times, 23 Dec. 2024
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Designed in Thiers, France—known to blade aficionados as the knife capital of the world—the saber features an ebony wood handle and can be engraved with a custom name or date.Sophie Dodd, Bon Appétit, 10 Dec. 2024
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The characters—ebony, sandalwood, ceiba, redwood and so on—quickly come to feel like old friends, their long life histories carefully told and the stakes of their uncertain futures in the Anthropocene clearly laid out.Joe Spring, Smithsonian Magazine, 9 Dec. 2024
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But the dog domestication saga gets even murkier in the context of the peopling of the Americas, which might have occurred sometime between 27,000 and 16,000 years ago.Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 16 Dec. 2024
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Yet the science surrounding the Pet Effect is murky, at best.Jessica Pierce, TIME, 15 Dec. 2024
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What felt like a Cinderella story at the start is exposed as a Faustian bargain with a sable coat thrown in.Lily Burana, Rolling Stone, 4 Nov. 2024
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This means that sable are often in competition with farmers.Scott Haugen, Outdoor Life, 11 July 2024
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“Pitchy.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/pitchy. Accessed 31 Dec. 2024.
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