obstreperously
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From obstreperous + -ly.
Adverb
[edit]obstreperously (comparative more obstreperously, superlative most obstreperously)
- 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.