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UK
/ˌɒbfəskˈeɪʃən/
]
[ US /ˌɑbfəˈskeɪʃən/ ]
[ US /ˌɑbfəˈskeɪʃən/ ]
NOUN
- confusion resulting from failure to understand
- the activity of obscuring people's understanding, leaving them baffled or bewildered
- darkening or obscuring the sight of something
How To Use obfuscation In A Sentence
- Looking back at Labour health policy now, I have to ask myself how so many of us were unable to see through the mists of what Leys and Player call the "misrepresentation, obfuscation, and deception" perpetrated by Blair, Brown, and a host of health ministers all too willing to genuflect to the market zeitgeist. The Plot Against the NHS by Colin Leys and Stewart Player – review
- These two manage to combine the clarity of the challenge and obfuscation of their solution without pausing for breath. Times, Sunday Times
- The big question is whether we will seize that opportunity or again let the transport debate get mired in political infighting and obfuscation.
- Even if, like me, you tend to put the most personal details of your thoughts through a fine mesh of allusion and obfuscation, you're still putting your life online.
- The effect of his work is not to explain anything, but rather to dramatize the purposeful obfuscation of information.
- She made it clear police obfuscation would not be allowed to continue.
- (Even Ike's famously rambling press-conference answers, according to his press secretary, were purposeful obfuscations rather than aphasic incompetence.) Archive 2009-01-01
- The band's cryptic song titles provide unneeded obfuscation.
- The identification of suspects by name provides a huge area for obfuscation.
- Because there are all kinds of lying--deliberate obfuscation, apophasis, appeals to emotion, etc. Steve Janke and dead, sodomized hookers? Hey, I'm just sayin'.