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obstreperously

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ob·strep·er·ous  (b-strpr-s, b-)
adj.
1. Noisily and stubbornly defiant.
2. Aggressively boisterous.
[From Latin obstreperus, noisy, from obstrepere, to make a noise against : ob-, against; see ob- + strepere, to make a noise (of imitative origin).]
ob·streper·ous·ly adv.
ob·streper·ous·ness n.
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Adv.1.obstreperously - in manner that attracts attention; "obstreperously, he demanded to get service"
clamorously, loudly
Translations
obstreperously [əbˈstrepərəslɪ] ADV → escandalosamente
obstreperously
adv → aufmüpfig (inf); (referring to child) → aufsässig


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He was catching fire from the flame he was partly simulating, and at tea-time he was obstreperously merry.
Of Human Bondage by Maugham, W. Somerset View in context
' said the swine-herd, after blowing his horn obstreperously, to collect together the scattered herd of swine, which, answering his call with notes equally melodious, made, however, no haste to remove themselves from the luxurious banquet of beech-mast and acorns on which they had fattened, or to forsake the marshy banks of the rivulet, where several of them, half plunged in mud, lay stretched at their ease, altogether regardless of the voice of their keeper.
Ivanhoe by Scott, Walter View in context
She shook it accordingly, and the bell, having a spiteful little temper of its own, rang obstreperously, making its remonstrances heard,--not, indeed, by the ears for which they were intended, --but by a good lady on the opposite side of the street.
House Of Seven Gables by Hawthorne, Nathaniel View in context
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