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obstreperous

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[ US /əbˈstɹɛpɝəs/ ]
[ UK /ɒbstɹˈɛpəɹəs/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. noisily and stubbornly defiant
    obstreperous boys
  2. boisterously and noisily aggressive
    kept up an obstreperous clamor

How To Use obstreperous In A Sentence

  • They are now more likely to call a product obstreperous than blame themselves for their ineptitude.
  • 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
  • I'm don't feel the need to obstreperously express disdain for all sports.
  • 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?
  • And they are humbled by the task of transforming so many ambitious individuals and obstreperous regions into a harmonious but innovative whole.
  • He sticks to his mission, getting the obstreperous children into school and helping them become learners.
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Most male penguins are known for being obstreperous, territorial squawkers.
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