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View definitions for intrusive

intrusive

adjective as in obtrusive

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She said the boys in her class at school would ask personal and intrusive questions.

From BBC

“Under Trump, higher education in the US will face a difficult future, featuring an aggressive and intrusive federal government, erosion in funding with no alternatives, a cavalcade of political litmus tests and a decline in the US’s science and technology capability,” wrote John Aubrey Douglass, a senior research fellow and research professor of public policy and higher education at the UC Berkeley Center for Studies in Higher Education.

Having a stranger walk up to ask your opinion about some issue of the moment that you may know or care very little about is intrusive and off-putting.

From Salon

Her memory of them being sweet as a teenager calmed the “Is this person actually a serial killer?” intrusive thoughts.

That requirement would impose “extensive, expensive and intrusive paperwork,” and would “burden our working families and small businesses with huge costs,” Duarte wrote in a Modesto Bee op-ed.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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