Please try not to obtrusive during the class. From LearnThat.org.
The obtrusive behavior of a spoiled child. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Adjective : an obtrusive error. From Dictionary.com.
So they want to make a new rule banning what they call obtrusive advertising in space. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript May 20, 2005] Reference
Youtube generally insists that its witnesses are mistaken and blames its oleaginous slurs on what I call obtrusive doomsday prophets. From Wordnik.com. [Yahoo! Answers: Latest Questions] Reference
Yes, we too have very seriously considered selling this car (it's a 2002 ML500) and exchanging it for something less "obtrusive" for travel in Mexico. From Wordnik.com. [GPS Mapping software] Reference
Our commanders, with the Iraqi commanders, have looked hard at how can you achieve, again, population control without having some kind of obtrusive barrier and so forth. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Apr 26, 2007] Reference
While he was never "obtrusive," yet he invariably claimed and exercised all his rights. From Wordnik.com. [History of the Afro-American Group of the Episcopal Church] Reference
"Yes," broke in Mr. Kershaw, with his obtrusive nose. From Wordnik.com. [The Golden Shoemaker or 'Cobbler' Horn] Reference
In chapel his reverence was quiet, though in no way obtrusive. From Wordnik.com. [Letters to His Friends] Reference
In many prayers self is obtrusive and aggressive from end to end. From Wordnik.com. [My Daily Meditation for the Circling Year] Reference
The snake takes a more obtrusive part in the Japanese than in the. From Wordnik.com. [The Evolution of the Dragon] Reference
So you might think he could laugh off the obtrusive military hardware. From Wordnik.com. [Arj Barker: Landing of the Conchord] Reference
Just a cottage or two to remind one that there is a population, but not obtrusive. From Wordnik.com. [Records of Woodhall Spa and Neighbourhood Historical, Anecdotal, Physiographical, and Archaeological, with Other Matter] Reference
"Can't you?" laughing and displaying his obtrusive teeth to their utmost advantage. From Wordnik.com. [Wired Love A Romance of Dots and Dashes] Reference
The annex fits into the neighborhood and is on the least obtrusive spot on the site. From Wordnik.com. [Do The Wright Thing] Reference
If it is obtrusive and aggressive, its appetites clamouring for supremacy, I pummel it!. From Wordnik.com. [My Daily Meditation for the Circling Year] Reference
In Europe this association of the ram and its spiral horn played an even more obtrusive part. From Wordnik.com. [The Evolution of the Dragon] Reference
Our sectarianisms are always most frowning and obtrusive when spiritually we are at "low tide.". From Wordnik.com. [My Daily Meditation for the Circling Year] Reference
A few of the more obtrusive attempted to force their society on him: to these he was frankly rude. From Wordnik.com. [Grey Town An Australian Story] Reference
He is very vain, full of confidence in himself, not more honest than necessary, and very obtrusive. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
Indeed, the more obtrusive they are, the better the purpose of the bedroom is believed to be served. From Wordnik.com. [The Art of Living in Australia ; together with three hundred Australian cookery recipes and accessory kitchen information by Mrs. H. Wicken] Reference
Some people began to tell me of the walls which were on all sides and getting more and more obtrusive. From Wordnik.com. [A Mess] Reference
UNDIVIDED ATTENTION of the members, and the rather obtrusive attention of the ladies who filled the galleries. From Wordnik.com. [The Journal of Negro History, Volume 5, 1920] Reference
The root does not necessarily denote the most essential quality of the thing, only its most obtrusive quality. From Wordnik.com. [Higher Lessons in English A work on english grammar and composition] Reference
It helps to make us obtrusive, unduly aggressive, when we ought to be reverently hiding our faces with our wings. From Wordnik.com. [My Daily Meditation for the Circling Year] Reference
The most comfortable (and least obtrusive) way to hold it was the same as at my kitchen table — just below table level. From Wordnik.com. [The iPad in daily life: To have and to hold] Reference
"It's been a really nice way to keep up on people without being obtrusive, just to kind of know what's going on," she says. From Wordnik.com. [A Broker’s Best ‘Friend’] Reference
But surely there was the additional and more obtrusive reason that the face affords the means of identifying the individual!. From Wordnik.com. [The Evolution of the Dragon] Reference
The most obtrusive influences that were brought to bear, especially in the area from Yucatan to Mexico, were inspired by the. From Wordnik.com. [The Evolution of the Dragon] Reference
Edelman is not only a law-school student but a self-styled spyware researcher and an expert on obtrusive advertising on the Net. From Wordnik.com. [Plain Text: Uneasy Rider] Reference
Among the most obtrusive evidences of death were the coldness of the skin, the lack of perspiration and of the odour of the living. From Wordnik.com. [The Evolution of the Dragon] Reference
Her voice was not obtrusive nor monotonous and generally not loud, but was always well adapted to the sense of what she was singing. From Wordnik.com. [Daybreak; a Romance of an Old World] Reference
In rush seasons it will make use of publisher's description, after carefully blue-pencilling obtrusive adjectives, but it goes no farther. From Wordnik.com. [The Building of a Book A Series of Practical Articles Written by Experts in the Various Departments of Book Making and Distributing] Reference
The collar was of picked medium gut stained black, many of the American anglers contending that this is the colour least obtrusive to fish. From Wordnik.com. [Lines in Pleasant Places Being the Aftermath of an Old Angler] Reference
"Cobbler" Horn was courteous to all, in his homely way; but he showed no anxiety to become further acquainted with these obtrusive persons. From Wordnik.com. [The Golden Shoemaker or 'Cobbler' Horn] Reference
The red bricks, too, are varied by having others of a dark grey tint introduced in reticulated patterns, which relieve without being obtrusive. From Wordnik.com. [Records of Woodhall Spa and Neighbourhood Historical, Anecdotal, Physiographical, and Archaeological, with Other Matter] Reference
After that you cannot look at the coat without seeing the stain, and it becomes so persistently obtrusive that you are compelled to have it removed. From Wordnik.com. [To Mars via The Moon An Astronomical Story] Reference
The French had been obtrusive and vexatious guests; but their worst trespasses had been mercy and tenderness, to the daily outrage of the new-comers. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 85, November, 1864] Reference
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