单词 | obstropolously |
释义 | > as lemmasobstropolously ΚΠ 1807 in S. White Stories of Freedom Black N.Y. (2002) i. 20 Reveste Chaux claimed that her slave Jane had not only ‘lately behaved herself very obstropulously’, refusing ‘to obey [her] lawful commands’, but that in early May 1807 Jane had also shoved and jostled her, laying ‘violent hands’ on her. 1824 J. Wight Mornings at Bow St. 155 They were forthwith conveyed to the watch-house, and there they conducted themselves so ‘obstropolously’, that the constable of the night found it necessary to have them put down below. 1867 J. W. De Forest Miss Ravenel's Conversion xix. 273 When I scold him for his worthlessness, he laughs most obstropolously. < as lemmas |
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