How To Use Obstreperous In A Sentence
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Some of them can be very demanding and ungrateful, even obstreperous and fractious.
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Most male penguins are known for being obstreperous, territorial squawkers.
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He was in his way a very determined person, not obstreperously so, but quietly and under the surface.
The Financier
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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
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You know I have no intention of being awkward and obstreperous.
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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?
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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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obstreperous boys
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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
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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?
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Most of the young people he'd come into contact with thought any music which wasn't loud and obstreperous was a waste of ears.
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‘He didn't exactly embrace the editing process,’ my editor said, hinting, albeit understatedly, at the reporter's obstreperous personality.
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The teacher and her "obstreperous" pupils had disappeared from Horsford and had been almost forgotten.
Bricks without Straw A Novel
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The crowd seated in the bleachers - it was a full house - was incessantly loud and obstreperous.
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If NASA can pull it off - and at the same time deal once and for with obstreperous French air traffic controllers and striking baggage handlers - the result could be a civil aviation revolution.
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The obstreperous emails in question focus on Norway's economic relationship with the European Union.
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‘He didn't exactly embrace the editing process,’ my editor said, hinting, albeit understatedly, at the reporter's obstreperous personality.
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The communist members of the Congress coalition are obstreperously opposed to too many market-friendly measures.
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Anyway, I'm feeling obstreperous, so what exactly should the US do in the conduct of future war?
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Other brewers 'draymen became obstreperous too, one calling the beadle that stopped him "a rogue" and another vowing that if he knew the beadle "he would have a touch with him at quarterstaff.
Inns and Taverns of Old London
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He meets an Englishman on a French train who pleases him much, and the two become good friends and see Rome together, but the fellow's wife is "obstreperous" and "haughty in her manner" and so
A Book of Prefaces
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But the truthers quickly became known as obstreperous crazies who disrupted media events, most notably a taping of the HBO show "Real Time With Bill Maher," in 2007.
NYT > Home Page
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It was hopeless; Adams was too obstreperously real to be idealized.
John Adams: The Biography
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There was a laugh among the yeomen who witnessed this pottle-deep potation, so obstreperous as to rouse and disturb the King, who, raising his finger, said angrily, “How, knaves, no respect, no observance?”
The Talisman
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obstreperously, he demanded to get service
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obstreperous" pupils had disappeared from Horsford and had been almost forgotten.
Bricks Without Straw
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At 178 pounds was the one and only Cassius Clay, who was cantankerous, garrulous and obstreperous.
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My father took the only course, as it seemed, that was open to "obstreperous" slaves - he took to the woods.
Finding a way out : an autobiography,
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Particularly obstreperous prisoners were hosed down with cold water from the bay, a practice that earned the warden the nickname ‘Saltwater’ Johnston.
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They laughed and hailed obstreperously whenever I spoke something they had not heard of or were interested in.
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The only way Democrats could have any power would be by acting as obstreperously and obstructively as possible, to prevent more damage, by using their investigative power in the House to lay out the crimes of this administration as clearly as possible.
Election Postmortem: What's Next?
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His clothes are shabby, his shoes worn, but he is always ready to intervene if some of the young men become a bit obstreperous.
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In my experience, Lefschetz was both obstreperous and enthusiastic - about research in mathematics.
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Not many were out in front of netroots opposition to single payer advocacy all last year quite as obstreperously as Jane Hamsher and her strange bedwetter coalition.
Balloon Juice » Blog Archive » Big Head Ed
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It's hard to be obstreperously trollish when the topics discussed are moving around so much.
"Many blogs have developed successful communities of commenters, with many very interesting and substantive contributions and discussions."
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But he was a quick learner; when a woman came in complaining that Jesus had been disrupting her neighborhood by behaving obstreperously, Mr. Bennett told her that he would order the police to lock up the Savior indefinitely.
Washington Warrior
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Your confirmation may therefore be vetoed by an obstreperous minority that needs no other reason besides, of course, the fact that you are ‘extreme.’
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He became obstreperously critical of the Allies, and was arrested on a trip to India and sent back to Britain, where he was put in jail for a half year.
The Prize
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Also at the home is an obstreperous new resident named Patrick, an ex-alcoholic who develops a close relationship with Clara, believing her to be a lost love from the Second World War.
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And they'll indicate whether a patient was noisy and needed medication or if they were obstreperous and perhaps needed to be placed in a straight jacket or tied to the bed.
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The women of his day were no doubt obstreperous and extravagant, and hence his famous but perfectly ineffectual teaching that they should not "broider their hair, or wear gold or silver or costly array," and that they shouldn't talk in meeting, and if they wanted to know anything, ask their husbands, and drink of their intellectual superiority.
Fair to Look Upon
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Most male penguins are known for being obstreperous, territorial squawkers.
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Bide doun, with a mischief to ye — bide doun, with a wanion,” cried the king, almost overturned by the obstreperous caresses of the large stag-hounds.
The Fortunes of Nigel
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Not many were out in front of netroots opposition to single payer advocacy all last year quite as obstreperously as Jane Hamsher and her strange bedwetter coalition.
Balloon Juice » Blog Archive » Big Head Ed
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Both the men now gazed in the direction from which they expected the girls to appear, when lo! shouting, laughing, and tearing obstreperously along, the six beauteous and dutiful damsels came racing towards them.
Ralph Rashleigh
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He sticks to his mission, getting the obstreperous children into school and helping them become learners.
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And they are humbled by the task of transforming so many ambitious individuals and obstreperous regions into a harmonious but innovative whole.
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A Los Angeles artist who gave that city's art establishment a bursting sense of pride for having nurtured such an obstreperous talent, he earned his celebrity status in part by retaining the obsessions and wounds of a smart Catholic working-class kid from the suburbs of Detroit who had never entirely assimilated to his sun-splashed California home.
How Will the Future Judge Him?
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I'm don't feel the need to obstreperously express disdain for all sports.
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In fact, the voices in the next room became obstreperously loud of a sudden, the cause of which vociferation it is necessary to explain before we go farther.
The Heart of Mid-Lothian
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They are now more likely to call a product obstreperous than blame themselves for their ineptitude.
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This isn't a case of the French behaving as obstreperously as the Americans.
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Already he could hear the growing clamor of his three obstreperous children.
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What, she wanted to know, was she to do with a 7-year-old who was obstreperous, outspoken, and inconveniently willful?
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Losing to the sleepiest of the Swedes, he obstreperously slammed down his racket and curdlingly called out to the sky.
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Edgar bade him adieu; and the faithful Ferdinand drove him wherever he had to go, and finally to Kensington Palace Gardens, where he was ushered into the drawing-room, to find Marilda, resolved upon unconsciousness, but only succeeding in a kind of obstreperous cordiality and good will, which, together with the hot room, made him quite dizzy; and his answers were so much at random, that he sent
The Pillars of the House, V1
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As his rating bumped still lower, he found himself constrained at every step by a hostile parliament, obstreperous governors, and unruly businessmen.
The Return
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There was a laugh among the yeomen who witnessed this pottle-deep potation, so obstreperous as to rouse and disturb the King, who, raising his finger, said angrily, “How, knaves, no respect, no observance?”
The Talisman
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Proper chains, that is, not the darbies used by the A Division peelers to restrain obstreperous revellers, but your genuine bilboes.
Flashman on the March
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Most teachers and many parents worry when a child is obstreperous.
Red Flags or Red Herrings?
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Proper chains, that is, not the darbies used by the A Division peelers to restrain obstreperous revellers, but your genuine bilboes.
Flashman on the March
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In fact, a 1936 survey found that the WEA had created an articulate and obstreperous working-class intelligentsia.
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The liquor soon mounted into their heads, as it generally does even with the arrantest topers newly landed from sea, and they began capering about most obstreperously.
Moby Dick; or the Whale
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The guard was armed with a long spear and a knife, the goat with only his tiny sharp teeth and his severely obstreperous attitude.
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It is all the more unhappy because we see what gentleness, what tact and professionalism he has to bring to the job of minicab driving: dealing with all sorts of obstreperous and difficult customers.
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kept up an obstreperous clamor
