obtrude
IPA: ʌbtrˈud
verb
- (transitive) To proffer (something) by force; to impose (something) on someone or into some area.
- (intransitive) To become apparent in an unwelcome way, to be forcibly imposed; to jut in, to intrude (on or into).
- (reflexive) To impose (oneself) on others; to cut in.
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Examples of "obtrude" in Sentences
- These features fail to obtrude.
- Ben was always there, but he never obtruded.
- You've managed to obtrude yet another level of metaissue.
- His learning, though vast and genuine, was never obtruded.
- Hunt obtrudes himself too frequently in a breezy, offhand manner.
- No stiff rows of pews obtrude their modern convenience upon your notice.
- I felt like one who had no right to obtrude himself there, and had become, as it were, a spy upon her.
- There is nothing to obtrude the thought of the spirit, in which life, freedom, and individuality were crushed out of the world.
- Mr. Andrews has produced a most entertaining book, without departing from authenticated facts, there is no moralising, and the writer never obtrudes himself.
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