OBSTREPEROUS in a Sentence
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Example sentences for OBSTREPEROUS, such as:
1. With din obstreperous, and ungrateful cries.
2. But she dared not show it, because Connie, taking after her father, would straight away become obstreperous and unmanageable.
2. But she dared not show it, because Connie, taking after her father, would straight away become obstreperous and unmanageable.
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Meanings and Examples of OBSTREPEROUS
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obstreperous
a. noisily aggressive; making great noise or outcry
Classic Sentence:
1 With din obstreperous, and ungrateful cries.
2 Your love-suit," said De Bracy, "hath, I suppose, been disturbed, like mine, by this obstreperous summons.
3 But she dared not show it, because Connie, taking after her father, would straight away become obstreperous and unmanageable.
4 Mamma was an abject slave to their caprices, but Papa was not so easily subjugated, and occasionally afflicted his tender spouse by an attempt at paternal discipline with his obstreperous son.
5 The liquor soon mounted into their heads, as it generally does even with the arrantest topers newly landed from sea, and they began capering about most obstreperously.
Example Sentence:
1 What do you do when an obstreperous horde of drunken policemen goes carousing through your hotel, crashing into potted plants and singing vulgar songs?.