Meanings
comparative more obtrusively · superlative most obtrusively
- 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 362 more examples
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 LetterHandsome, 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
- Englishobtrusive
- Proto-Indo-European*leyg-
- Proto-Germanic*līką
- Englishobtrusively
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