Obtruding
[ɔb'tru:dɪŋ]
Definition
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Obtrude
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Examples
- Miss Summerson, said Mr. Woodcourt, if without obtruding myself on your confidence I may remain near you, pray let me do so. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- Having secured me a place and a seat, he withdrew without asking a questionwithout obtruding a remark, without adding a superfluous word. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- Why had he come obtruding his life into hers, hers that might have been whole enough without him? George Eliot. Middlemarch.
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