Example Sentences

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The movie is “an obstreperously entertaining, bullet- and attitude-ridden science-fiction pastiche,” Ms. Dargis wrote in The Times in September.

From New York Times • Dec. 21, 2012

“Looper,” an obstreperously entertaining, bullet- and attitude-ridden science-fiction pastiche, opens in a futuristic world that looks and sounds paradoxically out of the past.

From New York Times • Sep. 27, 2012

That "blue-veined stone" is feminine rather than Mosaic, while the "tides" are almost personified, magicked into goblins by the adverb "obstreperously."

From The Guardian • Jun. 25, 2012

Lawyer Arthur Kinoy, who obstreperously protested testimony concerning one of his clients, ignored several requests to be seated and finally had to be carried out, yelling and screaming, by U.S. marshals.

From Time Magazine Archive

He put his razor on the edge of the washbowl, but it slid obstreperously down into the bowl.

From "Franny and Zooey" by J. D. Salinger