Catch-22 vocabulary

As a rule, the best Federalist strategy was to blame everything on the tiny, ill-governed, and obstreperous state of Rhode Island, which had first thwarted needed reforms of the Confederation and then boycotted the Philadelphia Convention.

Akhil Reed Amar. America's Constitution: A Biography (2005)

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he was sticking his neck out awfully far, and that the Army had a quiet way of sending obstreperous officers, officers who found it necessary to make complaints about their superiors, to unpleasant places like Assam or Iceland or New Guinea.

Irwin Shaw. The Young Lions, p.332 (1948)

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A lunatic may be 'soothed,' as it is called, for a time, but, in the end, he is very apt to become obstreperous.

Edgar Allan Poe. The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 4: The System of Doctor Tarr and Professor Fether (1845)