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obstreperous
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  • Though he could be a sweet boy, he was often short-tempered and obstreperous.†  (source)
  • Get obstreperous?†  (source)
  • By chance she had chosen the three most obstreperous pupils in the school to be her thieves and robbers.†  (source)
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  • He ran a squad of obstreperous newsboys, whom he loathed, and who loathed him in return, as was clear by their taunts and practical jokes.†  (source)
  • It was a raw, violent, guzzling saturnalia that spilled obstreperously through the woods to the officers' club and spread up into the hills toward the hospital and the antiaircraft-gun emplacements.†  (source)
  • I thought Turkey would appreciate the favor, and abate his rashness and obstreperousness of afternoons.†  (source)
    standard suffix: The suffix "-ness" converts an adjective to a noun that means the quality of. This is the same pattern you see in words like darkness, kindness, and coolness.
  • Welcome as they were at first, the riflemen soon proved even more indifferent to discipline than the New Englanders, and obstreperous to the point that Washington began to wish they had never come.†  (source)
  • He put his razor on the edge of the washbowl, but it slid obstreperously down into the bowl.†  (source)
  • Over the next weeks, Pollard and Smith discovered that obstreperousness was only one of Seabiscuit's bad traits.†  (source)
  • Boom boom boom boom ...Mr Sandman, sing me a song Boom boom boom boom Oh, Mr Sandman ...They were high, but not drunk, not obstreperous.†  (source)
  • He was catching fire from the flame he was partly simulating, and at tea-time he was obstreperously merry.†  (source)
  • I wanted to see him very much, and was enormously touched that he would make the long trip north, endure the uproar and dare shoulder through the swarming, obstreperous and brutal human tides of the metropolis in order to visit his only offspring.†  (source)
  • The liquor soon mounted into their heads, as it generally does even with the arrantest topers newly landed from sea, and they began capering about most obstreperously.†  (source)
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