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.
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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