OBSTREPEROUS in a Sentence

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For OBSTREPEROUS, below is one of 6 sentences:
But she dared not show it, because Connie, taking after her father, would straight away become obstreperous and unmanageable.

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 Meanings and Examples of OBSTREPEROUS
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
obstreperous
 a.  noisily aggressive; making great noise or outcry
Classic Sentence:
1  With din obstreperous, and ungrateful cries.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER I
2  Your love-suit," said De Bracy, "hath, I suppose, been disturbed, like mine, by this obstreperous summons.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXV
3  But she dared not show it, because Connie, taking after her father, would straight away become obstreperous and unmanageable.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 16
4  Mamma was an abject slave to their caprices, but Papa was not so easily subjugated, and occasionally afflicted his tender spouse by an attempt at paternal discipline with his obstreperous son.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER THIRTY-EIGHT
5  The liquor soon mounted into their heads, as it generally does even with the arrantest topers newly landed from sea, and they began capering about most obstreperously.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 3. The Spouter-Inn.
Example Sentence:
1  What do you do when an obstreperous horde of drunken policemen goes carousing through your hotel, crashing into potted plants and singing vulgar songs?.