单词 | obtrusively |
释义 | obtrusivelyadv. In an obtrusive manner; so as to be obtrusive. ΘΚΠ society > communication > manifestation > [adverb] > in an obtrusive manner obtrusively1796 the mind > attention and judgement > bad taste > unseemliness or unbecomingness > [adverb] > obtrusively obtrusively1796 the world > action or operation > behaviour > bad behaviour > discourtesy > [adverb] > so as to force oneself on a person intrudingly1704 obtrusively1796 protrusively1833 intrusively1847 1796 F. Burney Camilla IV. vii. v. 57 Why do you turn away from me? I will not obtrusively demand your confidence—yet, could I give you the most distant idea what a weight it might remove from my mind? 1817 S. T. Coleridge Biographia Literaria I. x. 191 I have seen gross intolerance shewn in support of tolerance; sectarian antipathy most obtrusively displayed. 1875 Cornhill Mag. Jan. 78 The ‘Vision of Sir Launfal’..is perhaps rather too obtrusively didactic. 1920 G. D. H. Carpenter Naturalist on Lake Victoria xii. 276 The ant that most obtrusively calls for notice is the well known Dorylus or ‘Safari ant’. 1966 G. Gould Let. 11 June in Sel. Lett. (1992) 93 All of this over-tracking would..be in and of itself a work of art, obtrusively filtering through the music. 2002 Time Out N.Y. 9 May 97/1 Looks like one of your obtrusively crappy low-budget thrillers escaped its straight-to-video pen. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adv.1796 |
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