obstreperous
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- s noisily and stubbornly defiant
obstreperous boys - s boisterously and noisily aggressive
kept up an obstreperous clamor
- Church officials have been evasive if not obstreperous in clarifying the precise timelines for the transition from Wright to Moss.
- So on Radiohead's new album, Hail to the Thief, Yorke finally reached the inevitable conclusion that the only original and obstreperous thing left was to stop trying so hard to be .
- Which is what happens to any man, woman or child who comes within earshot of Robert Larimore Riggs, the most notorious, obstreperous and, a good many women would say, obnoxious .