obstreperous

How To Use obstreperous In A Sentence

• Some of them can be very demanding and ungrateful, even obstreperous and fractious.
• Most male penguins are known for being obstreperous, territorial squawkers.
• He was in his way a very determined person, not obstreperously so, but quietly and under the surface. The Financier
• With some persuasion, however, there being but small difference in the value of the cloths, the one being a west of England bottle-green, and the other a Manchester blue, I caused them to niffer, and hushed up the business, which, had they been obstreperous, would have made half the parish of Dalkeith stand on end. The Life of Mansie Wauch Tailor in Dalkeith, written by himself
• You know I have no intention of being awkward and obstreperous.
• How does one deal with such a difficult yet weighty neighbor, a neighbor who can cause no end of mischief if it becomes truly obstreperous?
• Meanwhile, the royal cachinnation was echoed out by a discordant and portentous laugh from behind the arras, like that of one who, little accustomed to give way to such emotions, feels himself at some particular impulse unable either to control or to modify his obstreperous mirth. The Fortunes of Nigel
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• China's recent freak-out over a long-planned U.S. arms sale to Taiwan, its obstreperousness at the United Nations Copenhagen climate summit and its chuffiness on sanctions against Iran have underscored the non-democracy's new swagger as the healthiest post-crash economy. Edmonton Sun
• For instance, as new research shows, obstreperous behavior in early childhood does not predict academic difficulty in elementary and middle school. Red Flags or Red Herrings?