Sample sentences for OBFUSCATE

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Definition

make obscure or unclear

He was not candid. Instead he tried to obfuscate and even deceive.

Issuing too many warnings will obfuscate those warnings that are truly important.
You're supposed to tell the truth and be open and transparent and candid about your prospects — not obfuscate.
Nell Minow
In economics we call it obfuscation with a cloud of smoke and a couple of mirrors.
Robert Ludlum -- The Bourne Ultimatum

(editor's note: The suffix "-tion", converts a verb into a noun that denotes the action or result of the verb. Typically, there is a slight change in the ending of the root verb, as in action, education, and observation.)

They'll work it out with embassy obfuscation and read it to us before issuing it.'
Robert Ludlum -- The Bourne Supremacy

He had one of those refined discriminating intellects whose powers of logic were more than equal to my powers of obfuscation.
Pat Conroy -- The Lords of Discipline

It was dishonest to act like Margo hadn't participated in her own obfuscation.
John Green -- Paper Towns

The stressing of this historical element will lead to confusion; it will simply obfuscate the picture message.
Joseph Campbell -- The Hero With a Thousand Faces
The Criminal Element advised "stalling, delaying, and obfuscation of every possible sort" when it came to dealing with a criminal.
Kate DiCamillo -- Flora & Ulysses

You suppose we're reading too much into this talent for obfuscation?"
Tom Clancy -- The Hunt for Red October

At first only a few random words were clear enough to be understood: "Market ... too free to be .... obfuscate ...."
Trenton Lee Stewart -- The Mysterious Benedict Society
Silenus has committed the ultimate act of non-communication," wrote Urban Kapry in the TC'v Review, "by indulging himself in an orgy of pretentious obfuscation."
Dan Simmons -- Hyperion

She is—or was, I should say—apprenticed to the minister of obfuscation and deferment, and was here performing her duties on the day the corrupted raided the building.
Ransom Riggs -- Hollow City

It's in the nature of the genre that since the act itself is buried under layers of misdirection and obfuscation, it cannot support layers of meaning or signification.
Thomas C. Foster -- How to Read Literature Like a Professor

If Drayton were with us again to write a new edition of his incomparable poem, he would sing the nymphs of Hertfordshire as indeterminate of feature, with hair obfuscated by the London smoke.
E.M. Forster -- Howards End
Didn't the insurance companies realize that the cost of their obfuscation, denial, all the frustration they caused, only made her father's health worse, and threatened that of her mother?
Dave Eggers -- The Circle

Since it was inconceivable to me that Halloween was not as much a part of their vocabulary as it was of mine, I felt that I had obfuscated the high festival of witchcraft with a combination of too much talk and too much bull.
Pat Conroy -- The Water is Wide
Carried away by the daily valor of the Marines, working at a safe but obfuscating distance, and swept up in its own fantasy of a swashbuckling fight for a mountain, reporters invented the heroic fight up the slopes, and the flagraising among whizzing bullets, out of whole cloth.
James Bradley -- Flags of Our Fathers
Unlike Hobie— who assumed, incorrectly, that anyone who walked into his store was as fascinated by furniture as he was, who was extremely matter-of-fact in pointing out the flaws and virtues of a piece—I had discovered I possessed the opposite knack: of obfuscation and mystery, the ability to talk about inferior articles in ways that made people want them.
Donna Tartt -- The Goldfinch

As for uncle Pullet, he could hardly have been more thoroughly obfuscated if Mr. Tulliver had said that he was going to send Tom to the Lord Chancellor; for uncle Pullet belonged to that extinct class of British yeoman who, dressed in good broadcloth, paid high rates and taxes, went to church, and ate a particularly good dinner on Sunday, without dreaming that the British constitution in Church and State had a traceable origin any more than the solar system and the fixed stars.
George Eliot -- The Mill on the Floss

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