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Protrusive adj.

Thrusting or impelling forward; as, protrusive motion.

Capable of being protruded; protrusile.

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Etymology of 'Protrusive'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Protrusive" Quotes from Famous Books

... country are made drunk with cheap wines sold to them at fancy prices by courtesans, plucked and turned over to a subsidized police if they protest; where hundreds of pure girls are entrapped, drugged and ruined every day of the world. These social ulcers are so protrusive, have been written up so frequently by enterprising young reporters who naively supposed that to expose was to suppress, that even optimistic Dr. Talmage must at least be cognizant that such places exist,—even ...

— Volume 1 of Brann The Iconoclast • William Cowper Brann

... that if he were interested in my work I should be happy to show him what I had done. Mr. Geoffrey Dawling, the person thus introduced to me, stumbled into my room with awkward movements and equivocal sounds—a long, lean, confused, confusing young man, with a bad complexion and large, protrusive teeth. He bore in its most indelible pressure the postmark, as it were, of Oxford, and as soon as he opened his mouth I perceived, in addition to a remarkable revelation of gums, that the text of the queer communication matched the registered envelope. He was full of refinements and angles, of ...

— Embarrassments • Henry James

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