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.
- But for Branch another problem of principle started to obtrude itself at once.
- I've decided to use the word "obtrude" more, because I'm reading a book that keeps using the word.
- I felt like one who had no right to obtrude himself there, and had become, as it were, a spy upon her.
- A mere resumé of the topics discussed in these essays is enough to make the two horns of the dilemma obtrude themselves.
- There is nothing to obtrude the thought of the spirit, in which life, freedom, and individuality were crushed out of the world.
- Because alone perhaps among the writers of the genre and the time, Ransome never lets the adult world, viewpoint, superiority obtrude.
- In Heidegger's philosophy, people will resist imperfect equipment, especially when its faults obtrude upon their interactions with 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.
- As a general point of order: If you assume people are not qualified to enter into your theological argument, why do you obtrude it into a different discussion?
- He controlled himself, he knew not why, save that he was possessed by a nebulous awareness that Skipper must be considered as a god should be considered, and that this was no time to obtrude himself on Skipper.
- When I promised myself the pleasure of meeting with you at Clare Hall I undoubtedly meant what I said but who shall say exactly what the obstacles may be that may obtrude themselves between the wish and the accomplishment!
- “The materialist who is convinced that all phenomena arise from electrons and quanta and the like controlled by mathematical formulae, must presumably hold that his wife is a rather elaborate differential equation; but he is probably tactful enough not to obtrude this opinion in domestic life.”