Obtrusive
adjective
Something noticeable in an uncomfortable or annoying way.
His obtrusive behavior, interrupting the conversation incessantly, bothered everyone in the room.
Often appears as...
- obtrusive behavior
- obtrusive light
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Disapproving
adjective
Something noticeable in an uncomfortable or annoying way.
His obtrusive behavior, interrupting the conversation incessantly, bothered everyone in the room.
Often appears as...
- obtrusive behavior
- obtrusive light
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Disapproving
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Pro Tip 1/3Negative Feelings
Used to describe something that causes irritation or discomfort, often due to being in the way.
The obtrusive advertisements during the movie were frustrating.
Pro Tip 2/3Visually Disturbing
Refers to something that is aesthetically invasive or disrupts visual harmony.
The large, obtrusive sign blocked the beautiful view of the landscape.
Pro Tip 3/3Auditory Interruption
Refers to loud or unwelcome sounds that are hard to ignore.
Obtrusive noises from the construction site made it hard to concentrate.
Pro Tip 1/3Negative Feelings
Used to describe something that causes irritation or discomfort, often due to being in the way.
The obtrusive advertisements during the movie were frustrating.
Pro Tip 2/3Visually Disturbing
Refers to something that is aesthetically invasive or disrupts visual harmony.
The large, obtrusive sign blocked the beautiful view of the landscape.
Pro Tip 3/3Auditory Interruption
Refers to loud or unwelcome sounds that are hard to ignore.
Obtrusive noises from the construction site made it hard to concentrate.
Pro Tip 1/3Negative Feelings
Used to describe something that causes irritation or discomfort, often due to being in the way.
The obtrusive advertisements during the movie were frustrating.
Pro Tip 2/3Visually Disturbing
Refers to something that is aesthetically invasive or disrupts visual harmony.
The large, obtrusive sign blocked the beautiful view of the landscape.
Pro Tip 3/3Auditory Interruption
Refers to loud or unwelcome sounds that are hard to ignore.
Obtrusive noises from the construction site made it hard to concentrate.
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Edith Widder: Glowing...
And I defy you to name any other branch of science that still depends on hundreds of year-old technology. The other primary way is we go down with submersibles and remote-operated vehicles. I've made hundreds of dives in submersibles. When I'm sitting in a submersible though, I know that I'm not unobtrusive at all --
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Virginia Smith: The...
Volunteer to help maintain green stormwater infrastructure or create and invest in green stormwater infrastructure at your home or your business. This is an example from Villanova. I've circled it in red because it's not that obvious. This isn't a big, obtrusive piece of infrastructure.
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Edith Widder: The weird...
that uses far red light that's invisible to most animals, so it's unobtrusive. So I just want to show you some of the responses we've elicited from animals in the deep sea. So the camera's black and white. It's not high-resolution. And what you're seeing here is a bait box
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The weird, wonderful...
to most animals so it's unobtrusive so I just want to show you some of the responses that we've elicited from animals in the deep sea so the camera is black and white it's not high resolution and what you're seeing here is a bait box with a bunch of like the cockroaches
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Jane Walsh: The rise of...
There is a lifetime of history between us, but there are still new ways to connect. And there are so many practical and unobtrusive fixes that we can put in place. Maybe it's doorbell cameras or text alerts from the bank that come to our phone,
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How we found the giant...
I gave a talk on unobtrusive viewing and optical luring of deep sea squid in which I emphasized the importance of using quiet, unobtrusive platforms for exploration. This came out of hundreds of dives I have made, farting around in the dark
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Jim & Jamie Dutcher: The...
most likely depart knowing that wolves were so sensitive and knowing that they were also protected as an endangered species we decided to approach this project in a unique and unobtrusive way a woman in Montana had inherited a pack
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Safari Live - Day 384 PIPE...
little too small I'm afraid so yes there's an obtrusive research that's takes place and there's been a bit of research on rabies before there's I think somebody that was researching recently invasive species of snails
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Attacking Shark Gagged...
blue lights to be as unobtrusive as possible and a bait bag here at more than a 2,000 foot depth some of the first to attack the bait were hagfish also known as snot eels at one point a chitin shark
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How we found the giant...
gave a talk on unobtrusive viewing an optical luring of deep-sea squid in which I emphasized the importance of using quiet unobtrusive platforms for exploration this came out of hundreds of
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Edith Widder: Glowing...
And I defy you to name any other branch of science that still depends on hundreds of year-old technology. The other primary way is we go down with submersibles and remote-operated vehicles. I've made hundreds of dives in submersibles. When I'm sitting in a submersible though, I know that I'm not unobtrusive at all --
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Virginia Smith: The...
Volunteer to help maintain green stormwater infrastructure or create and invest in green stormwater infrastructure at your home or your business. This is an example from Villanova. I've circled it in red because it's not that obvious. This isn't a big, obtrusive piece of infrastructure.
Video examples
Edith Widder: The weird...
that uses far red light that's invisible to most animals, so it's unobtrusive. So I just want to show you some of the responses we've elicited from animals in the deep sea. So the camera's black and white. It's not high-resolution. And what you're seeing here is a bait box
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The weird, wonderful...
to most animals so it's unobtrusive so I just want to show you some of the responses that we've elicited from animals in the deep sea so the camera is black and white it's not high resolution and what you're seeing here is a bait box with a bunch of like the cockroaches
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Jane Walsh: The rise of...
There is a lifetime of history between us, but there are still new ways to connect. And there are so many practical and unobtrusive fixes that we can put in place. Maybe it's doorbell cameras or text alerts from the bank that come to our phone,
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How we found the giant...
I gave a talk on unobtrusive viewing and optical luring of deep sea squid in which I emphasized the importance of using quiet, unobtrusive platforms for exploration. This came out of hundreds of dives I have made, farting around in the dark
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Jim & Jamie Dutcher: The...
most likely depart knowing that wolves were so sensitive and knowing that they were also protected as an endangered species we decided to approach this project in a unique and unobtrusive way a woman in Montana had inherited a pack
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Safari Live - Day 384 PIPE...
little too small I'm afraid so yes there's an obtrusive research that's takes place and there's been a bit of research on rabies before there's I think somebody that was researching recently invasive species of snails
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Attacking Shark Gagged...
blue lights to be as unobtrusive as possible and a bait bag here at more than a 2,000 foot depth some of the first to attack the bait were hagfish also known as snot eels at one point a chitin shark
Video examples
How we found the giant...
gave a talk on unobtrusive viewing an optical luring of deep-sea squid in which I emphasized the importance of using quiet unobtrusive platforms for exploration this came out of hundreds of
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Alice Munro
Canadian Writer
I've often made revisions at that stage that turned out to be mistakes because I wasn't really in the rhythm of the story anymore. I see a little bit of writing that doesn't seem to be doing as much work as it should be doing, and right at the end, I will sort of rev it up. But when I finally read the story again, it seems a bit obtrusive.
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Jordan Gavaris
Canadian Actor
Toronto is actually way more fast-paced than L.A. - I find the fast-paced nature of Toronto a bit obtrusive. In L.A., I love getting up and going hiking and going to the beach - that's L.A. culture and it's awesome and I miss it. Toronto culture is wonderful, but I miss L.A.
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Howie Mandel
Comedian
I have thoughts - obtrusive thoughts and rituals that have to - it's like a broken re - a skipping record. And if these thoughts or these triggers happen to me through maybe shaking a hand or just a thought or just - then I can't get past it and move on with my life.
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Letitia Baldrige
American Writer
Backpacks are obtrusive. They're great for school kids and mountaineers, but a woman is supposed to look enticing and glamorous at night. They obscure one of a woman's most erogenous zones, the nape of her neck. I suppose they're good if you want to keep men away.
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Whitfield Diffie
American Scientist
People are leaving trails everywhere they go; automated web crawlers tell you an awful lot about their social activities. The flow of information in fundamentally unobtrusive ways into social control organisations has risen dramatically.
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J. R. R. Tolkien
English Novelist
Hobbits are an unobtrusive but very ancient people, more numerous formerly than they are today; for they love peace and quiet and good tilled earth: a well-ordered and well-farmed countryside was their favourite haunt.
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Joan Didion
American Author
My only advantage as a reporter is that I am so physically small, so temperamentally unobtrusive, and so neurotically inarticulate that people tend to forget that my presence runs counter to their best interests.
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John Keats
English Poet
Poetry should be great and unobtrusive, a thing which enters into one's soul, and does not startle it or amaze it with itself, but with its subject.
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Honore de Balzac
French Novelist
The art of motherhood involves much silent, unobtrusive self-denial, an hourly devotion which finds no detail too minute.
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Frank Sinatra Jr.
American Singer
I just try to fit into society the best I can. Be unobtrusive, be smooth. I don't want to hurt anybody, or be hurt.
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Alice Munro
Canadian Writer
I've often made revisions at that stage that turned out to be mistakes because I wasn't really in the rhythm of the story anymore. I see a little bit of writing that doesn't seem to be doing as much work as it should be doing, and right at the end, I will sort of rev it up. But when I finally read the story again, it seems a bit obtrusive.
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Jordan Gavaris
Canadian Actor
Toronto is actually way more fast-paced than L.A. - I find the fast-paced nature of Toronto a bit obtrusive. In L.A., I love getting up and going hiking and going to the beach - that's L.A. culture and it's awesome and I miss it. Toronto culture is wonderful, but I miss L.A.
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Howie Mandel
Comedian
I have thoughts - obtrusive thoughts and rituals that have to - it's like a broken re - a skipping record. And if these thoughts or these triggers happen to me through maybe shaking a hand or just a thought or just - then I can't get past it and move on with my life.
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Letitia Baldrige
American Writer
Backpacks are obtrusive. They're great for school kids and mountaineers, but a woman is supposed to look enticing and glamorous at night. They obscure one of a woman's most erogenous zones, the nape of her neck. I suppose they're good if you want to keep men away.
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Whitfield Diffie
American Scientist
People are leaving trails everywhere they go; automated web crawlers tell you an awful lot about their social activities. The flow of information in fundamentally unobtrusive ways into social control organisations has risen dramatically.
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J. R. R. Tolkien
English Novelist
Hobbits are an unobtrusive but very ancient people, more numerous formerly than they are today; for they love peace and quiet and good tilled earth: a well-ordered and well-farmed countryside was their favourite haunt.
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Joan Didion
American Author
My only advantage as a reporter is that I am so physically small, so temperamentally unobtrusive, and so neurotically inarticulate that people tend to forget that my presence runs counter to their best interests.
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John Keats
English Poet
Poetry should be great and unobtrusive, a thing which enters into one's soul, and does not startle it or amaze it with itself, but with its subject.
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Honore de Balzac
French Novelist
The art of motherhood involves much silent, unobtrusive self-denial, an hourly devotion which finds no detail too minute.
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Frank Sinatra Jr.
American Singer
I just try to fit into society the best I can. Be unobtrusive, be smooth. I don't want to hurt anybody, or be hurt.
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