What is "obtrusive"

Usage examples of "obtrusive".

With a desire to drive away obtrusive thoughts, the captain had been much in his fields, and he was bethinking himself of making a large contribution to the good cause, in the way of fatted porkers, of which he had an unusual number, that he thought might yet be driven through the forest to Fort Stanwix, before the season closed.

His hair and forehead furnished a recessional note in a personality that was in all other respects obtrusive and assertive.

As he lowered himself, he reached over and replaced the grate, shoving it up against the sturdy black thermoplastic casing of the winch, which would not be obtrusive at a distance.

The meeting having been going on for four days and three nights now, these two pieces of property were beginning to make themselves olfactorily obtrusive.

She took refuge in a kind of haughty silence, and whenever a new contretemps came to her knowledge, she simply greeted it with a bitter smile which Agatha always interpreted as an ironical reflection on poor, fantastic, obtrusive Mr.

He looked at the enormous and rather obtrusive Campanile, and seemed to ponder going up it, but decided against.

Kimbrough invited, and Cates swung down, his horse between them, the rifle always ready without being obtrusive.

What in particular excited in me this feeling was their feet, their dirty nails and fingers, a particularly long talon on Operoff's obtrusive little finger, their red shirts, their dickeys, the chaff which they good-naturedly threw at one another, the dirty room, a habit which Zuchin had of continually snuffling and pressing a finger to his nose, and, above all, their manner of speaking--that is to say, their use and intonation of words.

He, however, who is obtrusive with his eyes as a discerner, how can he ever see more of anything than its foreground!

An ink-stained table, littered with pens, papers, and almanacs, an American cloth sofa, three chairs of varying patterns, and a much-worn carpet, constituted all the furniture, save only a very large and obtrusive porcelain spittoon, and a gaudily framed and very somber picture which hung above the fireplace.

Ignore it unless it gets too obtrusive, at which point you inform Ezana that Loudmouths Alpha, Beta and Gamma have become a nuisance.

Also of sitting down here, on a sofa, and seeing Traddles's hair start up, now his hat was removed, like one of those obtrusive little figures made of springs, that fly out of fictitious snuff-boxes when the lid is taken off.