Obstreperous

əbˈstrɛpərəs

adjective

noisy and difficult to control

The word 'obstreperous' comes from the Latin word 'obstreperus,' meaning noisy or boisterous. It is often used to describe someone who is loud, unruly, or defiant in behavior.

Mamma was an abject slave to their caprices, but papa was not so easily subjugated, and occasionally afflicted his tender spouse by an attempt at paternal discipline with his obstreperous son.

Louisa May Alcott

Little Women

And how would you feel if you bad to interrupt dinner with your family in order to call some obstreperous dork in a Burbclave and grovel for a late fucking pizza?

Neal Stephenson

Snow Crash

Of course his infant majesty was most obstreperous at such toilet formalities and he let everyone know it: ―Habaa baaaahabaaa baaaa.

James Joyce

Ulysses

IV For, what with my whole world-wide wandering, What with my search drawn out through years, my hope Dwindled into a ghost not fit to cope With that obstreperous joy success would bring, I hardly tried now to rebuke the spring My heart made, finding failure in its scope.

Stephen King

Dark Tower 7 - The Dark Tower

Thus communed these; while to their lowly dome The full-fed swine return'd with evening home; Compell'd, reluctant, to their several sties, With din obstreperous, and ungrateful cries.

Homer

The Odyssey