Crossword-Solution: OBTRUSIVE 9 letters, 15 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 14

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Word Word Type Definition
Obtrusive a. Disposed to obtrude; inclined to intrude or thrust one's
self or one's opinions upon others, or to enter uninvited; forward;
pushing; intrusive.

We have 15 clues for the answer “OBTRUSIVE”

Clue Answers
Conspicous 1 answer
Unduly prominent 1 answer
Kibitzing 2 answers
Sticking (out) 5 answers
In the way. 5 answers
protruding 8 answers
Jutting 17 answers
Meddlesome 33 answers
Projecting. 35 answers
glaring 38 answers
meddling 39 answers
"Officious ___" 40 answers
Presumptuous 42 answers
noticeable 43 answers
Blatant 44 answers
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
RTEEA
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with OBTRUSIVE (5)

She heard me thus, and though divinely brought, Yet Innocence and Virgin Modestie, Her vertue and the conscience of her worth, That would be woo’d, and not unsought be won, Not obvious, not obtrusive, but retir’d, The more desirable, or to say all, Nature her self, though pure of sinful thought, Wrought in her so, that seeing me, she turn’d; I follow’d her, she what was Honour knew, And with obsequious Majestie approv’d My pleaded reason.
Paradise Lost John Milton 1991
She had made herself a charming home, her economies were not obtrusive, and there was always a cheerful flutter in the folds of her crape.
Roderick Hudson Henry James 2006
The cut of this gentleman’s moustache, with the two premature wrinkles in the cheek above it, and the fashion of his garments, in which an exposed shirt-front and a cerulean cravat played perhaps an obtrusive part, completed the conditions of his identity.
The American Henry James 1994
The Baroness had brought with her to the New World a copious provision of the element of costume; and the two Miss Wentworths, when they came over to see her, were somewhat bewildered by the obtrusive distribution of her wardrobe.
The Europeans Henry James 1994
His hair and forehead furnished a recessional note in a personality that was in all other respects obtrusive and assertive.
Beasts and Super-Beasts Saki 2011

Quotes with OBTRUSIVE (3)

A really cultured woman, like a really cultured man, is all the simpler and the less obtrusive for her knowledge; it has made her see herself and her opinions in something like just proportions; she does not make it a pedestal from which she flatters herself that she commands a complete view of men and things, but makes it a point of observation from which to form a right estimate of herself. She neither spouts poetry nor quotes Cicero on slight provocation; not because she t…
George Eliot Silly Novels by Lady Novelists
To him who feels himself preordained to contemplation and not to belief, all believers are too noisy and obtrusive; he guards against them.
Friedrich Nietzsche Beyond Good and Evil
She was appalled by West Egg’s raw vigour that chafed under the old euphemisms and by the too obtrusive fate that eroded its inhabitants along a short-cut from nothing to nothing. She saw something awful in the very simplicity she failed to understand.
F. Scott Fitzgerald The Great Gatsby
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Appears in: Newsday, NYT.

Used 2 times in crossword archives (1981–2019).