obstreperouslyadv.
/əbˈstrɛp(ə)rəsli/, /ɒbˈstrɛp(ə)rəsli/, U.S. /əbˈstrɛp(ə)rəsli/, /ɑbˈstrɛp(ə)rəsli/ In an obstreperous manner.
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society > authority > lack of subjection > unruliness > [adverb] > obstreperously
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the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > loudness > confused sound > [adverb] > rowdy noise
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1615 H. Crooke Μικροκοσμογραϕια 243 The Peripatetians obstreperously deny the Testicles this power of procreation of seede.
1655 T. Fuller Church-hist. Brit. x. 38 The Catholicks..at the two first behaved themselves so obstreperously, that some of them were forced to be gagged, before they would be quiet.
1750 S. Johnson Rambler No. 12. ⁋6 Upon this, they all laughed so obstreperously, that I took the opportunity of sneaking off in the tumult.
1809 W. Irving Hist. N.Y. I. iv. ii. 211 Its vigilant defenders..were one and all snoring most obstreperously at their posts.
1851 N. Hawthorne House of Seven Gables xix. 310 The bell, having a spiteful little temper of its own, rang obstreperously, making its remonstrances heard..by a good lady on the opposite side of the street.
1889 G. Gissing Nether World II. v. 94 Joseph laughed obstreperously, his wife's brow lowering the while.
1915 W. S. Maugham Of Human Bondage xxxiv. 152 At tea-time he was obstreperously merry.
1962 J. Heller Catch-22 xxxiv. 353 It was a raw, guzzling saturnalia that spilled obstreperously through the woods to the officers' club.
1999 D. M. Kennedy Freedom from Fear xiii. 404 A city fed a daily diet of Roosevelt-be-damned invective by Robert R. McCormick's militantly anti-New Deal and obstreperously isolationist Chicago Tribune.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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