(a.) Disposed to obtrude; inclined to intrude or thrust one's self or one's opinions upon others, or to enter uninvited; forward; pushing; intrusive.
Example Sentences:
(1) The method is easy to use, non-obtrusive to the subjects, and flexible enough to allow the investigator to design studies with a wide range of experimental protocols and study parameters.
(2) The very expensive Maxxi art gallery in Rome is exceptionally challenging to anyone who might want to display art there, with sloping walls, and cavernous spaces interrupted by obtrusive ramps.
(3) Obtrusive and unobtrusive observations revealed the cough rate higher when the patient was aware of being observed than when he was unaware of being observed.
(4) A principal components analysis indicated 4 components: distress, belief strength, obtrusiveness and concern.
(5) One mechanism suggested is that they arise through obtrusion of the fetal capillaries contained within the stromal core.
(6) Among the improved approaches now becoming available are lighter, less obtrusive braces such as an orthoplast jacket molded to the individual's torso, electrostimulation of paraspinal muscles, and implantation of a rod to distract the spine.
(7) The moment they start to annoy their users with subscriptions or obtrusive ads, users can easily switch to another service or simply stop using Snapchat."
(8) So in formal styles it's not a bad idea to keep an eye open for them and to correct the obtrusive ones.
(9) Obtrusive behinds that refuse to slip quietly into sheath dresses, subside, and stay put.
(10) Learning deficits, behavioural problems and manual indexterity are most obtrusive features.
(11) Other forms of monitoring are obtrusive or inaccurate.
(12) There was a telephone on the kitchen worktop, right by my hand, but if I picked it up he would hear the bedroom extension give its little yip, and he would come out and kill me, not with a bullet but in some less obtrusive way that would not alert the neighbours and spoil his day.
(13) Pressure measuring platforms cannot do this and transducers inserted inside the shoe can be obtrusive and inaccurate.
(14) In these late cases a special speedy selection process could kick in and Johnson could take a seat less obtrusively than in a full-blown byelection.
(15) Learning deficits and impairment of manual dexterity are the most obtrusive features.
(16) The morphological appearances suggest that they are caused by the obtrusion of locally dilated segments of the fetal capillaries into the trophoblast layer.
(17) The network sampling approach was a more economical and methodologically less obtrusive means of increasing sample size of persons with desired characteristics than conventional procedures.
(18) Both obtrusive and unobtrusive measures of speech were recorded.
(19) A mechanistic process (capillary peripheralization and obtrusion into the trophoblastic epithelium) is sufficient to account for the differences observed, although the possibility that both processes operate concurrently cannot be discounted.
(20) It reduces the oxygen supply flow necessary to achieve adequate oxygen saturation, but because it requires the use of a reservoir situated under the nose, some patients find it obtrusive.
Unobtrusive
Definition:
(a.) Not obtrusive; not presuming; modest.
Example Sentences:
(1) He recommends not a bland and stimulus-free environment, but one whose elements are unobtrusive and unambiguous.
(2) Key to her survival has been her ability to stay calm and project an air of unobtrusive competence.
(3) Given that in rural Haiti, as in much of the less developed world, few women deliver in clinic or hospital where such data could be systematically obtained, exploitation of the preceding birth method would require identification of a convenient and unobtrusive point of contact between questioner and mothers who have recently delivered.
(4) On the positive side, patients expressed satisfaction with the efficacy, rapid recovery and small unobtrusive scars produced by the procedure.
(5) Occasionally it has been unobtrusive – such as Nationwide's sponsorship of the cash machine in Dev's corner shop in Coronation Street – but elsewhere it's been jarring – such as ITV's deal with Samsung for The X-Factor , which led to scenes of contestants squealing with delight to receive goody bags of Samsung gadgets, and turned every phone call and video diary entry into a mini-plug for the brand.
(6) Its "promoted tweet" service, for example, didn't launch until 2010 (four years after the company's foundation), and the frequency of promoted tweets – and of other new services such as "promoted trends" – has been fairly unobtrusive up to now.
(7) A label for this heart rate either was or was not provided, and subjects' eating behavior was measured unobtrusively.
(8) However, no controlled study has previously been conducted to obtain systematic but unobtrusive data on the actual influences of alcohol upon real-world driving behavior in its natural environment.
(9) When I walk in, he is standing in the queue, on his own, casually dressed, looking as ordinary and unobtrusive as he can.
(10) Obtrusive and unobtrusive observations revealed the cough rate higher when the patient was aware of being observed than when he was unaware of being observed.
(11) Custom-made to blend in with the Victorian wooden benches, it looks like a tea-trolley and is almost as unobtrusive as the small grey cameras perched on the bookshelves.
(12) When one makes practical application of the unobtrusive approach, the most difficult problem is defining which interdisciplinary topics are currently being taught.
(13) The current study used an unobtrusive methodology to describe the social image associated with smokeless tobacco use and with cigarette smoking in three "types" of teenage models--an athlete, a cowboy, and an average teenager.
(14) This study reports on an unobtrusive study of changes in physician referral behavior after a need-oriented continuing medical education program.
(15) Using an unobtrusive eyedrop medication monitor, we measured compliance with topical pilocarpine treatment in a sample of 184 patients.
(16) Bragg, admittedly, was a particularly unobtrusive figure – his silence emanating from a emotionless Blackberry, as the singer songwriter is on tour in Scotland.
(17) Unobtrusive observations of smoking behavior at four hospital areas designated as no-smoking and two designated as smoking revealed almost total compliance to a revised and stringent smoking control policy.
(18) It is reliable and unobtrusive and is particularly resistant to occlusion of the sampling line by secrections.
(19) Therefore it is only reasonably good taste to be as unobtrusive as possible.
(20) To investigate this finding, a survey of reference activity was conducted using measurement techniques unobtrusive to the user.