intrusive
adjective
tending or apt to intrude; coming without invitation or welcome.
intrusively
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a word derived from
intrusive.
Example Sentences
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President Obama said he would consider a small enrichment program for civil nuclear purposes, if very deeply and intrusively monitored and verified.
From Barron's ● Jun. 25, 2026
Updike stuck up for himself when faced with the magazine’s intrusively correct fiddling: In 1958 he sent one editor, William Maxwell, an unwavering paragraph against a single word.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 10, 2025
Tourism workers say this can lead to hard feelings, especially when visitors try to photograph damage or ask intrusively about lost homes and loved ones.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 7, 2024
On Thursday, though, it just felt like a march to a finish line painted intrusively on the earth.
From New York Times ● Jun. 9, 2023
Altogether there are some ten thousand of these intrusively visible volcanoes on Earth, all but a few hundred of them extinct.
From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson
