Adjective : an obtrusive error. From Dictionary.com.
Eater uses frames even more obtrusively than Holland. From Wordnik.com. [Shelley, Medusa, and the Perils of Ekphrasis] Reference
Reeve moved himself obtrusively into the spaceman's way. From Wordnik.com. [Decision at Doona]
The Ringworld was obtrusively an artifact, a made thing. From Wordnik.com. [Ringworld]
The same phenomenon is displayed even more obtrusively in. From Wordnik.com. [The Evolution of the Dragon] Reference
A moral rudder could be — not too obtrusively — felt. From Wordnik.com. [The V.F. Century] Reference
And Harvey didn't want to be obtrusively present, not now. From Wordnik.com. [Lucifer's Hammer]
Still annoyed, still obtrusively patient, Shimon explained. From Wordnik.com. [Destiny's Road]
But now a Rome that is obtrusively modern claims attention. From Wordnik.com. [Humanly Speaking] Reference
Not too obtrusively, but we don't make it too invisible, either. From Wordnik.com. [Now the Hat Trick: Why Law Libraries?] Reference
The performances of the other gentlemen were obtrusively imbecile. From Wordnik.com. [No Name] Reference
And I'm not relating to the obtrusively placed political messages. From Wordnik.com. [Vamoose, Jarmusch!] Reference
You must keep your finger on the pulse, but not be obtrusively nosy. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2009-06-01] Reference
The most independent and obtrusively happy people one noticed in New. From Wordnik.com. [Four Years in Rebel Capitals An Inside View of Life in the Southern Confederacy from Birth to Death] Reference
There were two female clerks there too, doing the same thing but less obtrusively. From Wordnik.com. [Retail rage « knitnut.net] Reference
All this is obtrusively philosophical, of course, and correspondingly out of place. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 2, No 3, September, 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy.] Reference
Re: In online teaching, I tend to involve myself in discussions more obtrusively. From Wordnik.com. [P is for Presence « An A-Z of ELT] Reference
The existence of nonhuman intelligence has become obtrusively plan; humanity must adjust. From Wordnik.com. [Tales of Known Space]
Naitachal regarded the sun, peeking obtrusively through the window, like an unwanted guest. From Wordnik.com. [Prison Of Souls]
His bladder was full, and there was a stink in his nostrils, and his muscles ached obtrusively. From Wordnik.com. [Ringworld]
That day, Sunday, was our anniversary, and the Lord was with us early and late, though not obtrusively. From Wordnik.com. [An American Idyll The Life of Carleton H. Parker] Reference
Violent crime is always with us, but today more obtrusively and frighteningly than in earlier remembered times. From Wordnik.com. [American Terror] Reference
Not too obtrusively, but when you target, there's no waste: 50,000 people over here or 5 million people over there. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2005-11-01] Reference
In one rare attempt to quiet the child, the parents gave him an electronic device that then blipped and beeped obtrusively. From Wordnik.com. [San Antonio - SpouseBUZZ] Reference
To employ such license at all obtrusively is, no doubt, grotesque; but in any mode of poetic diction there must be moderation. From Wordnik.com. [Poetics] Reference
For, instead of the statement being, as the writer seems to think, almost self-evidently true, it is almost obtrusively false. From Wordnik.com. [Theism or Atheism The Great Alternative] Reference
The lesson of Demas's life is clear, nay even obtrusively clear, and the need of it has been freely acknowledged at all times. From Wordnik.com. [Men of the Bible; Some Lesser-Known Characters] Reference
Tests could certainly be improved to more frequently and less obtrusively measure progress (i.e., online adaptive assessment). From Wordnik.com. [Leave Bad Schools Behind] Reference
Is it possible that its recommendation lies in the fact that it does not render scratches so obtrusively obvious as rouge does?. From Wordnik.com. [On Laboratory Arts] Reference
And what's in the foreground of 3D TV — onscreen graphics, trees, fans, leaves — pops out, sometimes almost too obtrusively. From Wordnik.com. [Notah Begay brings unique Tiger Woods perspective to Golf Channel] Reference
It was a tilted plate with square corners, obtrusively artificial, fifteen paces by fifteen paces if half of it was under the mud. From Wordnik.com. [The Ringworld Throne]
Mrs. Kavanagh and Mrs. Lorraine were exceedingly and almost obtrusively kind to her, but she scarcely heard what they said to her. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 12, No. 31, October, 1873] Reference
But nobody seemed to think I was doing anything strange; one or two gentlemen glanced at me occasionally, but none stared obtrusively. From Wordnik.com. [Villette] Reference
The final scene of the war, at least that which most obtrusively stands forth in its panorama, was the siege and capture of Yorktown, in. From Wordnik.com. [The Nation in a Nutshell] Reference
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