hyperobtrusive

Updated: May 28, 2025

But, then, the radicalness of these differences, which was excessive; the dirt; the soiled and torn condition of the paper, so inconsistent with the true methodical habits of D , and so consistent of a design to delude the beholder into an idea of the worthlessness of the document these things, together with the hyperobtrusive situation of this document, full in the view of every visitor, and thus exactly in accordance with the conclusions to which I had previously arrived these things, I say, were strongly corroborative of suspicion in one who came with the intention to suspect.

- The Great English Short-Story Writers, Volume 1