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    They are a proud people and resent foreign intrusion into their local affairs.
    intrusion = unwelcome involvement
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    I resented the intrusion.  (source)
    intrusion = an unwelcome involvement
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    The gnats were too frantic to notice these intrusions,  (source)
    intrusions = interruption or entries (typically unwelcome)
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    She closed her eyes against the sudden harsh intrusion.†  (source)
    intrusion = an interruption or involvement that is unwelcome
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    "Then you may stay here." ... She said, "Would that not... intrude? I know what I have cost you."  (source)
    intrude = be an unwelcome or disruptive involvement
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    ...and ungodly neon intruding upon the beauty of the July dusk,  (source)
    intruding = interrupting
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    ...she would say something and add the name Hulga to the end of it, and the big spectacled Joy-Hulga would scowl and redden as if her privacy had been intruded upon.  (source)
    intruded = invaded (an unwelcome entry into her personal space)
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    Yet the questions never felt intrusive.  (source)
    intrusive = (like an) unwelcome involvement
    standard suffix: The suffix "-ive" converts a word into an adjective; though over time, what was originally an adjective often comes to be used as a noun. The adjective pattern means tending to and is seen in words like attractive, impressive, and supportive. Examples of the noun include narrative, alternative, and detective.
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    You never knew what intrusions, what thefts and gaffes anybody might commit.†  (source)
    intrusions = interruptions or instances of unwelcome involvement
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    Aw, tell him who's got his bike," another voice intrudes, a sharp voice with the flint of New England in the words.†  (source)
    intrudes = interrupts or involves oneself without welcome
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    And no houseful of wide-awake vampires with their intrusively sensitive hearing...Just him and me — really alone.†  (source)
    intrusively = with unwelcome involvement
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    These, after exhausting other modes of amusement, now thronged about Hester Prynne with rude and boorish intrusiveness.†  (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.
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    I tried to make my voice as quiet and unintrusive as I could.†  (source)
    unintrusive = not an involvement that is unwelcome
    standard prefix: The prefix "un-" in unintrusive means not and reverses the meaning of intrusive. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
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