Words at Play : Top 10 Sophisticated Insults
Definition:
difficult to control and often noisy
Example:
"All this obstreperous behavior on the part of Senator Cruz and his allies is upsetting to the Washington establishment on both sides of the aisle." – Don Todd, Forbes.com, October 13, 2013
About the Word:
"Unruly or aggressive noisiness" can be a hallmark of obstreperous; the word has an ancestor in the Latin strepere, meaning "to make noise." Strepere also turns up in the etymologies of the unusual terms strepitant and strepitous, both meaning "clamorous; noisy; boisterous."
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