Definition, Meaning & Synonyms | English word OBSTREPEROUS
OBSTREPEROUS
Definitions of OBSTREPEROUS
- Attended by, or making, a loud and tumultuous noise; boisterous.
- Stubbornly defiant; disobedient; resistant to authority or control, whether in a noisy manner or not.
Number of letters
12
Is palindrome
No
Examples of Using OBSTREPEROUS in a Sentence
- His book -in contrast to Knigge's On dealing with people "Über den Umgang mit Menschen" - is a conduct book with a collection of amusing verses in order to teach obstreperous pupils good behaviour and politeness "Höflichkeit".
- In February 2016, she received critical acclaim for her role in a revival of August Wilson's Ma Rainey's Black Bottom at the Lyttelton Theatre (for example: "Sharon D Clarke is terrific as Ma Rainey, regally imperious" – The Telegraph; "Her golden delivery of the title song is a high point" – The Observer; "Sharon D Clarke offers a wonderfully obstreperous performance as the eponymous blues star" – Time Out; "the powerhouse delivery of Sharon D Clarke in the central role of Ma Rainey is exhilarating" – The Stage).
- He was chosen by Sir Arthur Sullivan to create the title role in the opera Ivanhoe in January 1891, at the opening of the Royal English Opera House (Palace Theatre) – Shaw called him 'a robust and eupeptic Ivanhoe', who 'gets beaten because he is obviously some three stone over his proper fighting weight': and 'his obstreperous self-satisfaction put everybody into good humour.
- Moring, whom he denominated as a 'gander head,' and his conduct was so obstreperous that at length the body, worn out by his unruly and unseemly proceedings, was driven to expel him as a member,' reads the account.
- However, the Synod Scroll of the Novgorod First Chronicle, which is partly based on the original list of the late 11th Century and partly on the Primary Chronicle, does not name the Varangians asked by the Chuds, Slavs and Krivichs to reign their obstreperous lands as the "Rus'".
- In a series of flashbacks, we see - starting with getting George out of bed and off to work, bathing an obstreperous three-year-old, dealing with stopped drains and a faulty defroster, doing dishes, cajoling a rich uncle, washing clothes, mopping floors, sweeping behind heavy furniture, cleaning the stove and a rug, and cooking dinner.
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