Adjective : an obtrusive error. From Dictionary.com.
Its proud obtrusiveness had to make him a Council member. From Wordnik.com. [Achille's Choice]
This patriotic obtrusiveness culminates in the Battle of the Windows. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 103, October 1, 1892] Reference
It can't be the obtrusiveness of recording devices, as seemed to concern the court in. From Wordnik.com. [Who's Afraid of Cameras in the Courtroom?] Reference
But for her constant obtrusiveness, it is doubtful whether Jim would have noticed her prettiness at all. From Wordnik.com. [Colorado Jim] Reference
The young person who would cultivate tact in speech and manners will carefully guard against obtrusiveness. From Wordnik.com. [Letters to a Daughter and A Little Sermon to School Girls] Reference
The houses have some of the pertness, rawness and obtrusiveness of youth, but it is not the youth of the backwoods. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 097, January, 1876] Reference
Moonlight is always picturesque, because it substitutes mass and breadth for the obtrusiveness of petty particulars. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 77, March, 1864] Reference
The greatest blemish of the conversation and manners of the young people of to-day is obtrusiveness and exaggeration. From Wordnik.com. [Letters to a Daughter and A Little Sermon to School Girls] Reference
If we can spread pavement everywhere in one hundred years or so, we can also lessen its obtrusiveness in the same amount of time. From Wordnik.com. [Life Without Cars « Become A Robot] Reference
There was something alarming in his obtrusiveness. From Wordnik.com. [The Created Legend] Reference
We're not sure how Panels scores on obtrusiveness. From Wordnik.com. [Original Signal - Transmitting Web 2.0] Reference
Wilhelm good-naturedly forgave the girl her obtrusiveness. From Wordnik.com. [The Malady of the Century] Reference
The obtrusiveness of the body always disinherits the soul. From Wordnik.com. [The Friend on the Road and Other Studies in the Gospels] Reference
She took her place equally without obtrusiveness and without affectation. From Wordnik.com. [The Inner Shrine] Reference
The others maintained a dead silence, letting the display of Ursula's obtrusiveness pass by. From Wordnik.com. [Women in Love] Reference
A certain calm, equable temper of reserve, on his side, invariably restrained obtrusiveness. From Wordnik.com. [The Partisan: A Tale of the Revolution. By the Author of "The Yemassee," "Guy Rivers," &c. In Two Volumes. Vol. II] Reference
He was handsome, well groomed and particular, without obtrusiveness in any one of the points. From Wordnik.com. [The City and the World and Other Stories] Reference
I have suffered him to come too near, and familiarity has somewhat blunted me to his obtrusiveness. From Wordnik.com. [The Sword and the Distaff: Or, "Fair, Fat, and Forty." A Story of the South, at the Close of the Revolution by the Author of "The Partisan," "Mellichampe," "Katharine Walton," Etc. Etc.] Reference
In this group the accompaniments all receive an attention that gives them meaning without obtrusiveness. From Wordnik.com. [Contemporary American Composers Being a Study of the Music of This Country, Its Present Conditions and Its Future, with Critical Estimates and Biographies of the Principal Living Composers; and an Abundance of Portraits, Fac-simile Musical Autographs, and Compositions] Reference
Far from us be the idea of advocating rash obtrusiveness, of untimely aggressive and inconsiderate zeal. From Wordnik.com. [Catholic Problems in Western Canada] Reference
The staring obtrusiveness of this fact apparently made her husband's bright sympathetic eye blink as before. From Wordnik.com. [A First Family of Tasajara] Reference
Kester cocked his eye once more, but with as little obtrusiveness as he could, and pondered the sailor's looks and ways. From Wordnik.com. [Sylvia's Lovers — Volume 2] Reference
While this was helpful, it did not totally remove the obtrusiveness of the connecting joints for later video productions. From Wordnik.com. [Dailygame] Reference
She is a goddess of dainty thought -- reticent of habit, abjuring all obtrusiveness, purposing in no way to better others. From Wordnik.com. [The Gentle Art of Making Enemies] Reference
Her chair was most luxurious, and had her name painted on it, back and front, in very large letters, with undue obtrusiveness. From Wordnik.com. [Hilda Wade, a Woman with Tenacity of Purpose] Reference
In his walk through life there was no obtrusiveness, no pushing, no elbowing, none of the little arts which bring forward little men. From Wordnik.com. [Miscellaneous Writings and Speeches — Volume 2] Reference
He was able without difficulty or obtrusiveness to follow his man at a few yards 'distance, and even give proof of his solicitude by an occasional steadying hand on his arm. From Wordnik.com. [Reginald Cruden A Tale of City Life] Reference
Bazelhurst led the way, followed by the duke and the count, all of them supplied with carriage lamps, which, at any other time, would have been sickening in their obtrusiveness. From Wordnik.com. [Master Tales of Mystery, Volume 3] Reference
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