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obtrude
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Definition:to impose upon; to intrudeto importunately offer unwanted help
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last summer he was again most painfully obtruded on my notice.
Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice (1813)
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your noble conceptions of him are never insulted by the reflection that he has a nose to be pulled. A pestilent conceit, which so often will insist upon obtruding even when beholding the mightiest royal beadle on his throne.
Herman Melville. Moby Dick
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the fragrance of macaroni and cheese so obtruded itself that I was obliged to invite him in.
Marilynne Robinson. Gilead, p.120 (2004)
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I ventured to offer to the learned among them a conjecture of my own, that Laputa was quasi lap outed; lap, signifying properly, the dancing of the sunbeams in the sea, and outed, a wing; which, however, I shall not obtrude, but submit to the judicious reader.
Jonathan Swift. Gulliver’s Travels (1726)
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Unwilling to obtrude himself on the princess, Rostov did not go back to the house but remained in the village awaiting her departure.
Leo Tolstoy. War and Peace: With bonus material from Give War and Peace A Chance by Andrew D. Kaufman
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