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What does obstreperous mean?

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Adjective
  1. Attended by, or making, a loud and tumultuous noise; boisterous.
  2. Stubbornly defiant; disobedient; resistant to authority or control, whether in a noisy manner or not.
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The obstreperous emails in question focus on Norway's economic relationship with the European Union.
The guard was armed with a long spear and a knife, the goat with only his tiny sharp teeth and his severely obstreperous attitude.
Most of the young people he'd come into contact with thought any music which wasn't loud and obstreperous was a waste of ears.
At 178 pounds was the one and only Cassius Clay, who was cantankerous, garrulous and obstreperous.
What, she wanted to know, was she to do with a 7-year-old who was obstreperous, outspoken, and inconveniently willful?
He sticks to his mission, getting the obstreperous children into school and helping them become learners.

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