obstreperously

English

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English obstreperous

English -ly

English obstreperously

From obstreperous + -ly.

Adverb

obstreperously (comparative more obstreperously, superlative most obstreperously)

1. In an obstreperous manner.
   • 1851 November 14, Herman Melville, “The Spouter-Inn”, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC, page 16:

     The liquor soon mounted into their heads, as it generally does even with the arrantest topers newly landed from sea, and they began capering about most obstreperously.