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Obtrusion   Listen
noun
Obtrusion  n.  
1.
The act of obtruding; a thrusting upon others by force or unsolicited; as, the obtrusion of crude opinions on the world.
2.
That which is obtruded.





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"Obtrusion" Quotes from Famous Books



... attained his period of prosperity, could hardly have restrained had it suited his temper to do so. This, however, was the least of Charles's thoughts. His manners were such as secured him from indelicate obtrusion; and he sought no other protection from over-familiarity, than what these and his ready ...
— Peveril of the Peak • Sir Walter Scott
... ostentatious obtrusion of knowledge, in which those who hear us cannot sympathize, it is a fault of which soldiers, sailors, sportsmen, gamesters, cultivators, and all men engaged in a particular occupation, are quite as guilty as scholars; but they have the good fortune to have the vice ...
— Pearls of Thought • Maturin M. Ballou


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