obscurely

[ UK /ɒbskjˈɔːli/ ]
ADVERB
  1. in an obscure manner
    this work is obscurely written
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How To Use obscurely In A Sentence

  • There had been, in very ancient times, a native religion called Shinto, and it had lingered on obscurely. The Problem of China
  • The _spikelets_ are arranged in groups of two, facing each other and appearing like a single spikelet with two equal echinate glumes, sessile, or obscurely pedicelled on very short, tumid, pubescent branches. A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses
  • Your typical correspondent carps about a mistranslation, a geographical inaccuracy, an obscure word obscurely misused.
  • These last threats, uttered more obscurely than the others, obviously concerned the person of the King, and at one time the Duke expressed his determination to send for the Duke of Normandy, the brother of the King, and with whom Louis was on the worst terms, in order to compel the captive monarch to surrender either the Crown itself, or some of its most valuable rights and appanages. Quentin Durward
  • Moore, 543 (40 Eliz.); an obscurely reported case, seems to have been assumpsit against an agistor, for a horse stolen while in his charge, and asserts obiter that "without such special assumpsit the action does not lie. The Common Law
  • They were making her feel obscurely worried .
  • I want them to be obscurely, freezingly, impossibly Belgian. Excerpt: I Was Told There'd Be Cake by Sloane Crosley
  • Most exonyms are obscurely complimentary, even if that is not the intention. Times, Sunday Times
  • ‘More obscurely, and more defiant against attempts to debunk, is the case of Ninel Kulagina. The Bizarre Case Of Ninel Kulagina | Disinformation
  • The material body deposits, however obscurely, its trace in the voice - the vibration of air, the stretched muscle etc, are all opaquely present.
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