Adjective

(en adjective)

Attended by, or making, a loud and tumultuous noise; boisterous.

* 1809 , , Knickerbocker's History of New York , ch. 7:

[O]n a clear still summer evening you may hear from the battery of New York the obstreperous peals of broad-mouthed laughter of the Dutch negroes at Communipaw.

* 1855 , , "Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came":

. . . my hope

Dwindled into a ghost not fit to cope

With that obstreperous joy success would bring

* 1918 , , On the Stairs , ch. 3:

He developed an obstreperous baritone . . . and he made himself rather preponderant, whether he happened to know the song or not.

Stubbornly defiant; disobedient; resistant to authority or control, whether in a noisy manner or not.

* 1827 , , The Journal of Sir Walter Scott , October 1827:

[W]e came to Whittingham. Thence to Newcastle, where an obstreperous horse retarded us for an hour at least.

* 1903 , , "A Sandshore Wooing" in Short Stories: 1902-1903 :

My dress was draggled, my hat had slipped back, and the kinks and curls of my obstreperous hair were something awful.

* 1915 , , The Gray Dawn , ch. 70:

They reviled the committee collectively and singly; bragged that they would shoot Coleman, Truett, Durkee, and some others at sight; flourished weapons, and otherwise became so publicly and noisily obstreperous that the committee decided they needed a lesson.

Adjective

(en adjective)

Violently disturbed or agitated; tempestuous, tumultuous.

Being in, or causing, disturbance or unrest.

* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-08-10, volume=408, issue=8848, magazine=(The Economist), author=Lexington

, title= Keeping the mighty honest , passage=The [Washington] Post's proprietor through those turbulent [Watergate] days, Katharine Graham, held a double place in Washington’s hierarchy: at once regal Georgetown hostess and scrappy newshound, ready to hold the establishment to account. That is a very American position.}}