Definition of "obtruding" []

• Present participle of obtrude. (verb)

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• "Mowbray’s mock marriage had not halted at the profane ceremony of the church; and the delicate printer shrank from the idea of obtruding on the fastidious public the possibility of any personal contamination having occurred to a high-born damsel of the nineteenth century.”"
• "In the original conception, and in the book as actually written and printed, Miss Mowbray's mock marriage had not halted at the profane ceremony of the church; and the delicate printer shrank from the idea of obtruding on the fastidious public the possibility of any personal contamination having occurred to a high-born damsel of the nineteenth century. ""
• "It required a man of that calibre, a man capable of obtruding a duel into orderly twentieth century life, to find such wild adventures."