This work is obscurely written. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Adjective : an obscure sentence in the contract. ,obscure motivations. ,the obscure beginnings of a great movement. ,an obscure French artist. ,an obscure little town. ,an obscure back room. From Dictionary.com.
I stare in fascination as he attempts the task and am obscurely pleased when he has difficulty with it. From Wordnik.com. [Secret History of Elizabeth Tudor, Vampire Slayer] Reference
“Twitter is like little animated hieroglyphics in the margins of a working manuscript, offering obscurely breaking news”. From Wordnik.com. [Ballardian » Twitter links, part 2] Reference
Chinese government entities are ramping up stakes in Japanese blue-chip firms, mostly through obscurely named investment vehicles. From Wordnik.com. [What's News: Business & Finance] Reference
Another friendly critic has described the poem as a “vivid if obscurely symbolic description of a tribe of submarine primates.”. From Wordnik.com. [Deconstructing Obama] Reference
It made Joss obscurely melancholy for her own youth. From Wordnik.com. [Aching for Always] Reference
“Seemed wiser to keep you close,” he said obscurely, and turned his face. From Wordnik.com. [Aching for Always] Reference
The clouds parted today, so things are a little brighter, he said, obscurely. From Wordnik.com. [February – 2010 – The Bleat.] Reference
The sub-bass reconfigures everything around it, and the effect is both hypnotic and obscurely threatening. From Wordnik.com. [Magnetic Man ? review] Reference
A few books published obscurely does not mean that "Third World" or even just non-Anglophone sf gets very much publication in the US. From Wordnik.com. [ianmcdonald: Spingate] Reference
He pointed to a plastic giant with a red nose, red hair, and a red, white, and blue hat standing outside a tent that said, obscurely, B-I-N-G-O!. From Wordnik.com. [Dead Zero] Reference
I would love to see them make references very obscurely to other films. From Wordnik.com. [Is there Really a Third ‘Gremlins’ in the works? | We Are Movie Geeks] Reference
She found her wild and bohemian and, it was obscurely understood, lower class. From Wordnik.com. [Dreaming in French] Reference
Usually he is forgotten, or at least left standing obscurely in the background. From Wordnik.com. [APPRECIATING SAINT JOSEPH] Reference
When Louis XVI. and his queen were executed, in 1793, they were obscurely buried on this spot. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2009-01-01] Reference
She sits next to me; I am obscurely gratified, and stare out the window so as not to stare at her. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2009-07-19] Reference
A project co-ordinator and two "delivery co-ordinators" are being paid £200,000, and an obscurely titled "content writer" £27,000. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2009-03-01] Reference
All he has to do is to write for publication obscurely so that no one will really attempt to read them but will be awed by erudition. From Wordnik.com. [Kohn on Principles and Methods of Obscurantism] Reference
Ok, you win, we only have power points obscurely high up on the wall, not quite on the ceiling. From Wordnik.com. [This is what an electrician's house looks like] Reference
The transition from practical to obscurely high-tech is burdensome, most likely more likely to be hacked. From Wordnik.com. [Let’s skip the Election Day madness] Reference
In my family's life it's a niche that was filled by They Might Be Giants and, more obscurely, by Brave Combo. From Wordnik.com. [Berkner & Zanes DVDs] Reference
I just got this obscurely disturbing bit of spam-poetry. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2006-01-01] Reference
It would be published obscurely—a run of fifty at best. From Wordnik.com. [The Scandal of the Season] Reference
Other changes took place obscurely, in the dull dishwater law of the dockets. From Wordnik.com. [A History of American Law] Reference
I am obscurely annoyed by this, as my current WIP, going to the editor this week?. From Wordnik.com. [The WritingYA Weblog: Blowin' in the Wind] Reference
There are even others or at least one other with my name here in New Zealand, but only obscurely referenced. From Wordnik.com. [EXTRALIFE – By Scott Johnson - It would seem I am on the cover of newsweek] Reference
Her thoughts were like thick clouds—obscurely dense from a distance and disappearing into a wispy mist when she grasped for one. From Wordnik.com. [Touch a Dark Wolf] Reference
Anyway, I thought you might be interested is seeing what a final product looks like, based on the originating, obscurely worded patent. From Wordnik.com. [Some Comments on my Posts] Reference
He motioned obscurely toward the intersection from which they had come. From Wordnik.com. [Heaven Lake] Reference
Giant willow trees loomed obscurely from the reach of only ten or twenty yards. From Wordnik.com. [Heaven Lake] Reference
Those who write clearly have readers, those who write obscurely have commentators. From Wordnik.com. [Classic English short stories] Reference
I'm obscurely happy that the World Orchestra for Peace has a percussionist called Neil Hitt. From Wordnik.com. [grahamsleight's Journal] Reference
Albert Camus: ‘Those who write clearly have readers, those who write obscurely have commentators.’. From Wordnik.com. [Harry Blamires: The New Bloomsday Book] Reference
It keeps track of its favorite authors' novels-in-progress and reprints obscurely published but important works of genre fiction. From Wordnik.com. [Fantastic Metropolis: Potentially one of the best online magazines?] Reference
Foodgoat knew about it, and it's in all the grocery stores, but I can't even find it on the Internet, that's how obscurely local it is. From Wordnik.com. [No one knows its here, do they?] Reference
The picture appeared a vast and dim scene of evil, and I foresaw obscurely that I was destined to become the most wretched of human beings. From Wordnik.com. [Frankenstein; Or, The Modern Prometheus] Reference
“I hope you may retain that emotion,” said Merriman obscurely. From Wordnik.com. [Greenwitch] Reference
Sheestimated that not one of them had been born in the United States, which obscurely cheered her. From Wordnik.com. [Enemy Within] Reference
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