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Meanings of obstreperously in English

In manner that attracts attention.

Synonyms
Examples for "loudly"
Examples for "loudly"
1
When you want to make a wish, simply state it-clearlyand loudly.
Can You Feel Anything When I Do This?
2
Okeke was about to ask another question when a phone shrilled loudly.
Bones Are Forever
3
Reportedly, right after President Obama finished speaking, Ross' ankle monitor beeped loudly.
Ebony
4
The midshipman-of-the-watch, a youth named Deane, said rather loudly, 'Half-past four, sir!'
For my Country’s Freedom
5
Only once did anyone speak loudly enough for Rand to hear clearly.
To the blight: the eye of the world
1
They were clamorously back of the Junkers in their demands for war.
The World War and What was Behind It; Or, The Story of the Map o...
2
This trait came out somewhat clamorously after the battle of Bull Run.
The Life of Abraham Lincoln
3
The gong sounded again, clamorously, it seemed imploringly: dinner was growing cold.
Crome Yellow
4
He was leading his buck sheep, and the hounds rushed forward clamorously.
The Ramrodders: A Novel
5
Does this give us reason clamorously to condemn Ugolino and the pope?
Life of St. Francis of Assisi
Usage of obstreperously in English
1
She now lies on the footstool between my feet, purring most obstreperously.
Passages from the American Notebooks, Volume 2.
2
His joy was patent, and revealed itself much more obstreperously than Olivier's.
Jean-Christophe Journey's End
3
Dempster affected to take no notice of her, talked obstreperously, and drank steadily.
Scenes of Clerical Life
4
They are the most obstreperously nationalistic of the lot.
The new yorker
5
Joseph laughed obstreperously, his wife's brow lowering the while.
The Nether World
6
Hawkers were crying fruit and vegetables and fish in rhythmic cadence; a donkey was braying obstreperously.
The Emancipated
7
To Helen she seemed obstreperously happy and jubilant.
The Lion and the Unicorn
8
I submitted, of course; and should have done no less by a landlady not so obstreperously constituted.
At a Winter's Fire
9
He soon recovered himself, though, and said more obstreperously than ever, If they are, I disown 'em.
Put Yourself in His Place
10
In one apartment was an obstreperously noisy society of parrots and macaws, most gorgeous and diversified of hue.
Passages from the English Notebooks, Volume 1.
11
He was in his way a very determined person, not obstreperously so, but quietly and under the surface.
The Financier: A Novel
12
They were timidly conservative at the age at which every healthy human being ought to be obstreperously revolutionary.
Getting Married
13
He was catching fire from the flame he was partly simulating, and at tea-time he was obstreperously merry.
Of Human Bondage
14
And thus that pink and white, cooing, obstreperously hungry baby was made an instrument of cruel fate and-
The Golden Bird
15
His heart was obstreperously beating.
Clayhanger
16
And he called out obstreperously,-
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 100, February, 1866 / A Mag...
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Obstreperously through the time