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obfuscate
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  • 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.†  (source)
  • You suppose we're reading too much into this talent for obfuscation?†  (source)
  • Moments ago, she'd purposely obfuscated.†  (source)
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  • "M. 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."†  (source)
    standard suffix: 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.
  • "What does 'obfuscate' mean?" asked Constance.†  (source)
  • 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.†  (source)
  • 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.†  (source)
  • 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.†  (source)
  • At first only a few random words were clear enough to be understood: "Market ...too free to be ...obfuscate ..."†  (source)
  • 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.†  (source)
  • They'll work it out with embassy obfuscation and read it to us before issuing it.'†  (source)
  • Obfuscate!†  (source)
  • 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.†  (source)
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