Definition of Obtrusively

1. Adverb. In an obtrusive manner.

Partainyms: Obtrusive
Antonyms: Unobtrusively

Definition of Obtrusively

1. Adverb. In an obtrusive manner. ¹

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Definition of Obtrusively

1. [adv]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Obtrusively

obtested
obtesting
obtests
obtrectation
obtrude
obtrude upon
obtruded
obtruder
obtruders
obtrudes
obtruding
obtruncation
obtrusion
obtrusions
obtrusive
obtrusively (current term)
obtrusiveness
obtrusivenesses
obtund
obtundation
obtunded
obtundent
obtundents
obtunder
obtunders
obtunding
obtundities
obtundity
obtunds
obturate

Literary usage of Obtrusively

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Walter Savage Landor: A Biography by John Forster (1869)
"... been maue in the course of it ; and what I may now permit myself to say of lus character will he said least obtrusively in connection with this poem. ..."

2. Quincy, Old Braintree, and Merry-Mount by Daniel Munro Wilson (1906)
"Still, "the maritime cast" is not now obtrusively conspicuous. For genuine "old salts" we resort to the "National Sailors' Home" and to the "Sailors' Snug ..."

3. Historical Essays of Macaulay: William Pitt, Earl of Chatham, Lord Clive by Thomas Babington Macaulay Macaulay, Samuel Thurber (1892)
"He had little reason to love the King, and had shown clearly, though not obtrusively, his dislike of the system which had lately been pursued. ..."

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