Obtruded
[ɔb'tru:did]
Definition
(imp. & p. p.) of Obtrude
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Examples
- He obtruded himself upon us in the first instance. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- But last summer he was again most painfully obtruded on my notice. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
- Red Whisker pretended he could make a salad (which I don't believe), and obtruded himself on public notice. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- But then the impossibility of the thing obtruded itself upon me. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- Sometimes I thought the tomb unquiet, and dreamed strangely of disturbed earth, and of hair, still golden, and living, obtruded through coffin-chinks. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- The name, made more odious by its diminutive, obtruded itself on Lily's thoughts like a leer. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
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