obstreperous

He liked to drink, colleagues say, and would occasionally get obstreperous.

He claims that a "little loosening up of the hide" of an obstreperous prisoner does the said prisoner a vast amount of good.

Our Commandant, Fauad Bey, has been in a most obstreperous and belligerent mood for days.

For a young woman who had prescribed outlawry as a cure for obstreperous nerves her alarm was astonishing.

Priests were notorious for being the most ill-tempered, obstreperous, and unstable of men.

In an instant his father's spotted hound bounded from behind the cabin, followed by four other obstreperous dogs.