Verb (used with object), : to obfuscate a problem with extraneous information. From Dictionary.com.
The Democratic Alliance on Monday accused President Thabo Mbeki of being "obfuscatory" about his involvement in the arms deal. From Wordnik.com. [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference
The last thing the green movement should pursue is any kind of obfuscatory waffle about. From Wordnik.com. [The Guardian World News] Reference
Asked about the information commissioner's assertion that the Tories had been "obfuscatory". From Wordnik.com. [PLIGG_Visual_Name - PLIGG_Visual_RSS_All] Reference
This is exactly the kind of obfuscatory, vaguely conceptual, busily physical work that leaves audiences feeling like they didn't get it. From Wordnik.com. [NYT > Home Page] Reference
This obfuscatory refusal to use the f-word must stop. From Wordnik.com. [Matthew Yglesias » Lilly Ledbetter Act Passess] Reference
This is Greenspan at his most direct and non-obfuscatory!. From Wordnik.com. [Markets surge: The Greenspan memoir cometh! | EW.com] Reference
Because Obama was intentionally obfuscatory on the matter. From Wordnik.com. [Chris Weigant: Friday Talking Points [93] -- Lies, Lies And Propaganda] Reference
But one thing I won't tolerate, OK, is obfuscatory nonsense. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript May 15, 2008] Reference
Wonder where its famously defensive, obfuscatory "culture" comes from?. From Wordnik.com. [GM Needs a Political Strategy] Reference
There was nothing muddy, obfuscatory, or poll-tested in Obama's speech. From Wordnik.com. [Bill Katovsky: Obama Is The New Black] Reference
If they pull the same spin, obfuscatory nonsense that the Republicans did. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Nov 12, 2006] Reference
I gotta hand it to you, Bloom, you have a great reserve of obfuscatory techniques. From Wordnik.com. [New Online Resources « Climate Audit] Reference
If so, all you're doing is restating, in an obfuscatory way, what you already think. From Wordnik.com. [Listening to "like-minded" foreigners.] Reference
Steinberg right now is believed — ah, the obfuscatory wonders of the passive voice!. From Wordnik.com. [DIPSET DIPSET DIPSET DIPSET | ATTACKERMAN] Reference
Criticism of any of it tends to run into a lot of sanctimony and obfuscatory language. From Wordnik.com. [Matthew Yglesias » Quasi-Experimental Data on KIPP] Reference
DOBBS: You may like me, but you're being extraordinarily short - sighted and obfuscatory. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript May 8, 2007] Reference
If you don't know what I'm talking about, it's because I'm being intentionally obfuscatory. From Wordnik.com. [phluid61 Diary Entry] Reference
Because I'm getting pretty weary of their obfuscatory, evasive, rambling scribblings myself. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2007-03-01] Reference
'They' refers to anyone who fudges around the facts with obfuscatory and flabby verbiage, thus. From Wordnik.com. [On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...] Reference
LS' question is nothing more than an obfuscatory hand grenade lobbed to try to obscure the issue. From Wordnik.com. [When even the Twatrick thinks you're a putz ...] Reference
The vice president's response was long-winded and obfuscatory, but the same in essence as Nixon's. From Wordnik.com. [Nixon Admitted What Cheney Won't] Reference
The very fact that Iran has been so obfuscatory and vague about its nuclear plans makes it suspicious. From Wordnik.com. [On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...] Reference
Thus, the obfuscatory construction was adopted, based on the fact that most such traffic then was via radio. From Wordnik.com. [The Volokh Conspiracy » Interesting Pieces on the New FISA Legislation:] Reference
I would expect them to be MORE brazen, arrogant and obfuscatory, remember the boogey men are still out there. From Wordnik.com. [Think Progress » Iraq intel investigation still being manipulated.] Reference
In its academically punctilious way, David F. Maier's letter is as obfuscatory as those by Hopkins and Jacobs. From Wordnik.com. ['When Words Collide': An Exchange] Reference
Liberal Supporter: I'm not going to answer obfuscatory questions -- especially not ones I've already answered. From Wordnik.com. [When even the Twatrick thinks you're a putz ...] Reference
Academic writing in the humanities often gets criticized for saying very little in as obfuscatory a way possible. From Wordnik.com. [Falling Into Oblivion without a Parachute] Reference
In either case, the online documentation for LaTex (and related editors, interfaces, etc.) is maddeningly obfuscatory. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2005-08-01] Reference
He said the wrist study appeared “to be an exercise in the presentation of misleading ideas in an obfuscatory manner.”. From Wordnik.com. [Boing Boing] Reference
On my view, the two positions are in the end not distinguishable, so it is obfuscatory to try to make them sound distinct. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2007-10-01] Reference
I would add, however, that I think many -- or at least me -- are just as confounded by your obfuscatory SL insider syntax. From Wordnik.com. [Coldwell Banker selling homes in Second Life] Reference
"He has been obfuscatory, unhelpful and has hidden behind legal technicalities in order to avoid answering simple questions.". From Wordnik.com. [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference
I fear that Islamification and Sharia law is being slipped past the general public in this country in a similar obfuscatory way. From Wordnik.com. [On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...] Reference
I think the Adminisrtations obfuscatory, weasel like manner on so may issues regarding truthful information is being used on them. From Wordnik.com. [Think Progress » Two things that offend Dick Cheney:] Reference
#116 Ah, but you see, TCO illustrated well their obfuscatory tactics by misdirection and lack of positive input to converstations. From Wordnik.com. [Cicerone of NAS Acquiesces in Data Obstruction « Climate Audit] Reference
Once more, I should stress that these are merely my initial understandings of this deliberately obscure and obfuscatory legislation. From Wordnik.com. [Balkinization] Reference
There are some other reasons for obfuscatory writing and technical jargon that are less forgivable than those I've just mentioned, however. From Wordnik.com. [Talking the Talk] Reference
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