Adjective : obstreperous children. From Dictionary.com.
And certainly Hee-haw showed no signs of obstreperousness. From Wordnik.com. [The Moving Picture Girls at Oak Farm or, Queer Happenings While Taking Rural Plays] Reference
But its NK's obstreperousness, entirely on its own, which has led to this. From Wordnik.com. [Open Thread] Reference
Atlantic is surprised at the obstreperousness of the more vigorous members of the family. From Wordnik.com. [Humanly Speaking] Reference
But the overwhelming legacy of Southern obstreperousness and arrogance and delusion continues to this day. From Wordnik.com. [Picketts charges] Reference
Complaint Department: What a tragedy is't that age and ingenuity shall ever fall to the obstreperousness of youth!. From Wordnik.com. [[AKICILJ] for forty days and forty night they rode through red blood to the knee] Reference
Having grabbed themselves a distribution system, Malone and Maffei now went on to see what value their obstreperousness could get from Diller. From Wordnik.com. [The Best of Enemies] Reference
What makes it truly frustrating is that, somewhere in the stream of inconsequence and obstreperousness, there are usually a few nuggets of gold. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2006-08-01] Reference
The lessons these so-called leaders (who are supposed to be advocates for children) are teaching is that irrational obstreperousness on the part of an exercised few can indeed prevail. From Wordnik.com. [Stacie Nevadomski Berdan: A Live Lesson in Democracy for Students] Reference
For all its energy and joyful obstreperousness, Bellow's work is curiously blurred, curiously hidden, precisely, one contends, because for the most part and at its strongest it eschews form. From Wordnik.com. [Saul Bellow: Letters - review] Reference
Some are; but ignorance and obstreperousness are factors, too. From Wordnik.com. [Latest Articles] Reference
India has often complained of its neighbours 'obstreperousness over bilateral economic relations. From Wordnik.com. [The Financial Express] Reference
I thought Turkey would appreciate the favor and abate his rashness and obstreperousness of afternoons. From Wordnik.com. [Bartleby] Reference
I thought Turkey would appreciate the favor, and abate his rashness and obstreperousness of afternoons. From Wordnik.com. [The Piazza Tales] Reference
(I would rather have my shins kicked any day), and greeted me with out-door obstreperousness and revolting good spirits. From Wordnik.com. [Options] Reference
The Q&A period had a "raucous" atmosphere, too, said a spy, and let us now offer some general praise for obstreperousness. From Wordnik.com. [SFGate: Top News Stories] Reference
"We always know in good time what the negroes are about, for they haven't the sense to keep their own secrets; if they show any obstreperousness, we shall pretty quickly put them down.". From Wordnik.com. [The Missing Ship The Log of the "Ouzel" Galley] Reference
There rest, before us, not objects to gaze upon, but barriers to vision, obstructions, the visible obstreperousness of the visual world, arrayed like a sequence of curtains leading to a consequence of shadows. From Wordnik.com. [dbqp: visualizing poetics] Reference
Whatever one thinks of Professor Gates and his behavior, he certainly shouldn't have been arrested in his own house after he showed his drivers license to prove he lived there, and considering he never offered any physical obstreperousness, by: you @ soon. From Wordnik.com. [Blue Mass. Group - Front Page] Reference
China's recent freak-out over a long-planned U.S. arms sale to Taiwan, its obstreperousness at the United Nations Copenhagen climate summit and its chuffiness on sanctions against Iran have underscored the non-democracy's new swagger as the healthiest post-crash economy. From Wordnik.com. [Ottawa Sun] Reference
A mere temperamental outbreak in a brief period of obstreperousness exposes a promising boy to arrest and imprisonment, an accidental combination of circumstances too complicated and overwhelming to be coped with by an immature mind, condemns a growing lad to a criminal career. From Wordnik.com. [The Spirit of Youth and the City Streets] Reference
The King had been true to his word, he had made inquiries; in a way he had even "looked into the matter," and had received from the right and official quarter bland assurances that there was nothing in it -- merely a general obstreperousness and a wish to cause trouble to the police. From Wordnik.com. [King John of Jingalo The Story of a Monarch in Difficulties] Reference
The classic story is de Gaulle’s legendary obstreperousness during World War II. From Wordnik.com. [The International Community is not a fundamentally predatory force « Isegoria] Reference
When I added the comment that I’m disappointed with the Republicans’ overall obstreperousness, the intern started arguing with me. From Wordnik.com. [Balloon Juice » Blog Archive » Reminder] Reference
Mp3 ringtones mp3 ringtones And having come to that obstreperousness and placing the hest confidence in each sodic, they all repaired to Kisk. From Wordnik.com. [Think Progress » CLAIM vs. FACT: Bush and Gangs] Reference
Is this obstreperousness from someone who doesn’t like web forms, or is it pure misunderstanding based on a sense that forms are things you print and fill out?. From Wordnik.com. [2008 July « Attempting Elegance] Reference
But now, I was determined to lie there without interruption until Jeff needed me or Toby told me dinner was ready … though I did keep the door ajar, just in case my houseguest could not handle my son’s occasional obstreperousness. From Wordnik.com. [State of the Union] Reference
But this is obstreperousness run amok. kc says. From Wordnik.com. [When keeping it partisan goes wrong (III) - Beyond The Commons - Macleans.ca] Reference
I suggest "noisome and noxious obstreperousness.". From Wordnik.com. [Lionel: Gatesgate: They've All Got It Wrong.] Reference
These are bills incurred by his obstreperousness. ". From Wordnik.com. [The Seattle Times] Reference
To be chosen, in other words, invites incomprehension, skepticism, and obstreperousness. From Wordnik.com. [The Chosen Peoples] Reference
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