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UK
/ˌɒbfəskˈeɪʃən/
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[ 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
- The answer to providing a modicum of security for interpreted applications has to this point been obfuscation - - making the code look different so it can be difficult to decompile and figure out.
- He should be forced to face up to his platitudes and obfuscations over the past four years.
- For him to warp my book in this way, while calling me, absurdly, a "hardliner" in quite a different context (Israel) and then conceding that I do not consider Muslims mystical anti-Semites, is surely an obfuscation of the whole discussion. 'The Great Hatred'
- But sly obfuscation and specious fault-finding don't help. Globe and Mail
- At best they were footnotes on the contrary theme, at worst outright obfuscation.
- The obfuscation method works only because Microsoft's IIS permits a non-standard decode of html (so Apache servers, for example, are not affected).
- If you have a provable scientific claim, especially one where you cite significant observable effects, there is no need to promote it through the medium of bombast and obfuscation.
- You know the kind of stupefying sesquipedalian obfuscation where the scribe appears to be in cahoots to get a commission every time you have to stop and look up a word. Is Godot your middle name, Bill O��Reilly?
- Suitably chastened, may I humbly entreat him to, unambiguously and without obfuscation, answer a few pertinent questions?
- Our delirium is the somber side-effect of a nation under sedation, induced by a heroin-like injected haze of obfuscation and trepid tentativeness to break free of our "pusher. Bush's Wonderland and through the Looking Glass of Iraq