obtrusively

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adverb

In an obtrusive manner.

Scrabble 19

Meanings

adverbobtrusively (comparative more obtrusively, superlative most obtrusively)

comparative more obtrusively · superlative most obtrusively

  1. In an obtrusive manner.

    "There are other people coming besides the Princess Ziska, are there not, Mr. Murray?" inquired Sir Chetwynd Lyle, with an obtrusively bantering air. Denzil Murray glanced him over disdainfully.

    1897, Marie Corelli, “Chapter I”, in Ziska: The Problem of a Wicked Soul, New York: Stone & Kimball, page 36
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    These, like the over-largely lettered signs and placards of the street, escape observation by dint of being excessively obvious; and here the physical oversight is precisely analogous with the moral inapprehension by which the intellect suffers to pass unnoticed those considerations which are too obtrusively and too palpably self-evident.

    1844, Edgar Allan Poe, The Purloined Letter

    Handsome, yet not obnoxiously so; clever—though perhaps more in an appreciative than an original fashion; pleasant in conversation, yet never putting himself obtrusively forward, he was a man that most men liked, and all women were sure to admire amazingly.

    1872, Dinah Maria Craik, Hannah, Chapter 4

Synonyms & antonyms

adverbin an obtrusive manner

Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

Origin

  1. Englishobtrusive
  2. Proto-Indo-European*leyg-
  3. Proto-Germanic*līką
  4. Englishobtrusively

From obtrusive + -ly.

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