obstreperousness
- n noisy defiance
- Reputedly, Foreign Minister Briand has made an agreement with the Vatican of which one clause is that it shall discourage the obstreperousness of Catholic Royalists in France.
- Whenever the crisis is resolved, the damage done by Britain's obstreperousness will remain.
- It was a measure of the loneliness to which Charles de Gaulle's international obstreperousness had brought him that the rebuke was delivered by the European statesman who, above .