obfuscate
verb (used with object)
to make unclear or hard to understand, especially deliberately.
obfuscatory
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a word derived from
obfuscate.
Example Sentences
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Any general education environmental science course that ignores it is incomplete, or outright obfuscatory.
From Scientific American ● Sep. 18, 2023
The replacement of Miss and Mrs. by Ms., which Mr. McWhorter notes, was elegant and efficient; using “they” and “them” as both singular and plural is simply obfuscatory.
From New York Times ● Oct. 9, 2021
They’ve also been obfuscatory: The officers, reportedly from DHS, are nameless and faceless, retreating and reappearing inside a kind of mist.
From Slate ● Jul. 28, 2020
Whitaker was evasive and obfuscatory, but he specifically denied receiving an angry call from the president about the guilty plea of his former lawyer Michael Cohen.
From Salon ● Feb. 14, 2019
He uses words or phrases that are unnecessary or obfuscatory but that he believes make him sound thoughtful.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 13, 2017
