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obscure
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not known to many people or: not clearly seen, understood, or expressed; or to hide or make less visible or understandable |
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- an obscure turn of phrase
- The obscure battle is hardly mentioned in history books.
- those who do not appreciate Kafka`s work say his style is obscure
- She had a number of rich and noble lovers and one poor and obscure one,Twain, Mark -- A Tramp Abroad
- There are two kinds of light--the glow that illuminates, and the glare that obscures.James Thurber
- I find myself in a position to throw light on just that part of his tragic career which has remained most obscure.Maugham, W. Somerset -- Moon and Sixpence
- A quite different but also widespread form of spirituality is that of the so-called New Age Movement, which offers individuals the opportunity to reconnect with mystical dimensions of the self and thus with the wider cosmos-relationships that are typically obscured by secular culture and often are not addressed in biblical traditions.Religion - MSN Encarta -- http://encarta.msn.com/text_761565187___0/Religion.html(retrieved 05/21/06)
- While litigation will always be uncertain, it has to be structured so that complex technical issues are addressed in a way designed to elucidate rather than obscure.Adam Jaffe and Josh Lerner -- Innovation and Its Discontents -- http://www.aei-brookings.org/policy/page.php?id=250(retrieved 06/29/06)
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