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Obtrusive
"Obtrusive" in a Sentence (10 examples)
He tried to be less obtrusive.
She was appalled by West Egg, this unprecedented "place" that Broadway had begotten upon a Long Island fishing village—appalled by its raw vigor that chafed under the old euphemisms and by the too obtrusive fate that herded its inhabitants along a short-cut from nothing to nothing.
Their general literary merit was not obtrusive, although, of course, they sometimes contained work which afterwards became famous.
Efforts to curb excess illumination are also underway from the Australian Outback to Britain's Sherwood Forest. The Czech law resembles one enacted in Italy's Lombardy region after 25,000 citizens petitioned against obtrusive outdoor lighting.
The office manager is an unpleasantly obtrusive individual.
Her vertue and the conſcience of her worth, / That would be woo'd, and not unfought be won, / Not obvious, not obtruſive, but retir'd, / The more deſirable, […]
He has an obtrusive forehead.
Thus it was that, year by year, Boss McGinty's diamond pins became more obtrusive, his gold chains more weighty across a more gorgeous vest, and his saloon stretched farther and farther, until it threatened to absorb one whole side of the Market Square.
But there was a third principal in this primitive drama, the wife of Essenden, a woman of great energy, great possessiveness and obtrusive helpfulness.
The facade of the building was ornamented with obtrusive sculpted designs.
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