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obstreperously

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Staying resolutely, obstinately, obstreperously outside the system, he incurs the suspicion, the hatred, and the physical opposition of those who are inside of it, but he also enjoys a paradoxical measure of lucidity and freedom.

He put his razor on the edge of the washbowl, but it slid obstreperously down into the bowl.

It was a raw, violent, guzzling saturnalia that spilled obstreperously through the woods to the officers’ club and spread up into the hills toward the hospital and the antiaircraft-gun emplacements.

Maduro has obstreperously refused to make any political concessions, insisting that he will see out his term, which ends in 2019.

That’s a fair worry in general — and especially with a Congress this obstreperously disrespectful.

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

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