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intrusive
adjective as in obtrusive
Example Sentences
She said the boys in her class at school would ask personal and intrusive questions.
“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.
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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