[…] my hope
Dwindled into a ghost not fit to cope
With that obstreperous joy success would bring

He developed an obstreperous baritone […] and he made himself rather preponderant, whether he happened to know the song or not.

[W]e came to Whittingham. Thence to Newcastle, where an obstreperous horse retarded us for an hour at least.

My dress was draggled, my hat had slipped back, and the kinks and curls of my obstreperous hair were something awful.

They reviled the committee collectively and singly; bragged that they would shoot Coleman, Truett, Durkee, and some others at sight; flourished weapons, and otherwise became so publicly and noisily obstreperous that the committee decided they needed a lesson.

This is what your boyfriend did, honey. When he was in one of his more obstreperous moods.

He said he loved making movies like Luca Guadagnino’s “A Bigger Splash,” in which his charismatic, obstreperous character, Harry Hawkes, a music producer described by the Italian director as “a pagan fawn,” does a Dionysian dance to the Rolling Stones song “Emotional Rescue.”

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