obtrude
📖 Definitions
verb tr.
To impose one’s ideas, opinions, etc.
verb intr.
To thrust forward or to intrude.
💬 Usage Examples
“I shall allow you neither to entangle yourself in an engagement, nor to embarrass my affianced wife by obtruding yourself upon her.” Georgette Heyer; Bath Tangle; William Heinemann; 1955. “Part of a pale-blue window obtrudes.
But nothing disrupts the composition’s essential harmony.” Peter Schjeldahl; Going Flat Out; The New Yorker; May 16, 2022.