obtruder
Example Sentences
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He ought therefore to be despisd as an obtruder.
From The Writings of Samuel Adams - Volume 4 by Harry Alonzo Cushing
Could the Government not be helped out of this difficulty by the Primate himself prosecuting the obtruder?
From The Letters of Queen Victoria : A Selection from her Majesty's correspondence between the years 1837 and 1861 Volume 2, 1844-1853 by Arthur Christopher Benson
It is a startling announcement of a fateful fact, an obtruder feared and unloved; it is like a clash of cymbals or call of trumpets summoning to unwelcome tasks, away from delights and dreams.
From The Wagnerian Romances by Gertrude Hall Brownell
Several molluscs admit tenants, one particular species a rotund crab; but in the case in point the wrong mansion was entered and, so to speak, the obtruder was transformed.
From Tropic Days by E. J. (Edmund James) Banfield
