Obstreperous

How Academics are Like Teenagers 1. Questionable work ethic 2. Emotional immaturity 3. Overestimation of the value of their labor 4. Physically awkward and/or unattractive 5. Closed-minded 6. Provincial 7. Obstreperous 8. Rely on the economic efforts of others 9. Need adequate adult supervision

The Volokh Conspiracy » How Academics Are Like Teenagers: 2009

Obstreperous clients were more easily dealt with by simply flooding a room or hallway with narcoleptic gas.

The Mocking Program Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 2002

Obstreperous, toothless and talentless, he has to beat up his female guitarist to get any press these days.

FallNews 1999

Obstreperous till noon, he would then quiet down by degrees till, at six o'clock, his spirits had reached a strange nadir of depression.

King John of Jingalo The Story of a Monarch in Difficulties Laurence Housman 1912

Obstreperous parent adumbrated in the foreground, shotgun in hand.

The Madness of May Meredith Nicholson 1906

Obstreperous health and safety regulations don't help, either.

Your Local Guardian | Sutton 2009

Obstreperous You touch on (even if indirectly) an important point: what is the role of government, ...

Dissident Voice 2009

So for the next few days, I'll be That Person With An Obstreperous Cold.

I have a cold! Or do I? Can I Google it? Alexandra Petri 2011

FORMAT/INFO: “Veracity” is 384 pages divided over nine sections—each section is titled after a ‘Red Word’, followed by that word’s definition: Apostasy, Heresy, Obstreperous, etc.—and twenty-seven numbered/dated chapters.

“Veracity” by Laura Bynum (Reviewed by Robert Thomson) Robert 2010

Obstreperous and Pragmatic Vulgarity; Hygiene; Quinine; Life and

Buchanan's Journal of Man, February 1887 Volume 1, Number 1 1856