obtrusive

obtrusive (əbˈtruːsɪv)

—*adj*
1.	obtruding or tending to obtrude
2.	sticking out; protruding; noticeable

ob'trusively

—*adv*

ob'trusiveness

—n

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Example sentences

The top of the stadium is so high and wide that architecturally, a retractable

roof would make it even larger and more obtrusive.

Since the buildings in this study were generally occupied, the tests had to be

as non-obtrusive as possible.

It is also not as obtrusive as the cheaper data card model that plugs into

laptops for heavy-duty data users.

Fried said, rather than so obtrusive it would annoy viewers.

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Matching Quote

"There never was, I suppose, in the history of the world a time when the sheer vulgar fatness of wealth, without any kind of aristocratic elegance to redeem it, was so obtrusive as in those years before 1914 ... . from the whole decade ... there seems to breathe forth a smell of the more vulgar, un-grown-up kinds of luxury, a smell of brilliantine and creme de menthe and soft- centered chocolates—an atmosphere, as it were of eating everlasting strawberry ices on green lawns to the tune of the Eton Boating Song."

-George Orwell