obstreperous

IPA: ʌbstrˈɛpɝʌs

adjective

Attended by, or making, a loud and tumultuous noise; boisterous.
Stubbornly defiant; disobedient; resistant to authority or control, whether in a noisy manner or not.

Examples of "obstreperous" in Sentences

I apologize for that obstreperous adjective.
Scientists active in taxonomy are obstreperous.
I think you are being deliberately obstreperous.
The above editor is apparently being obstreperous.
I believe you have been unilateral and obstreperous.
Bouncers see that obstreperous customers are disjointed.
He is far from hyperventilating, obstreperous or belligerent.
The older he grew, the more difficult and obstreperous he became.
She cannot manage her household against her obstreperous servants.
Most teachers and many parents worry when a child is obstreperous.
Why should this frenzy affect the obstreperous poets in a less degree
"obstreperous" pupils had disappeared from Horsford and had been almost forgotten.
The teacher and her "obstreperous" pupils had disappeared from Horsford and had been almost forgotten.
My father took the only course, as it seemed, that was open to "obstreperous" slaves - he took to the woods.
For instance, as new research shows, obstreperous behavior in early childhood does not predict academic difficulty in elementary and middle school.
As his rating bumped still lower, he found himself constrained at every step by a hostile parliament, obstreperous governors, and unruly businessmen.
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.
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 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.
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

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