Verb (used with object) : Debris obstructed the road. From Dictionary.com.
They're located in the lower level, with varying degrees of obstructiveness. From Wordnik.com. [Redskins invite me to join "The Loud Crowd"] Reference
Her obstructiveness is deliberate: as pointed out above, she does NOT WANT to seat either delegation YET. From Wordnik.com. [Wolfson: Even If Florida And Michigan Aren't Seated, An Obama Victory Would Be Legit] Reference
Lechulatebe owed their lives to his clemency; and the latter might have paid dearly for his obstructiveness. From Wordnik.com. [Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa] Reference
Sharpe, who had been prepared by Blair for every kind of official obstructiveness, dared not believe his good fortune. From Wordnik.com. [Sharpe's Devil]
Eden had been so enraged by Churchill's procrastination and obstructiveness that he had sometimes come to hate the man he most admired. From Wordnik.com. [The Next Best Man] Reference
"This obstructiveness of the department of defence is merely indicative of the concerning trend within the department of defence to flaunt occupational health and safety legislation requirements.". From Wordnik.com. [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference
Lord CRAWFORD, who has probably forgotten more about Art than some of his critics ever knew, concealed his real sympathy for the motion under a mask of official obstructiveness, but was compelled eventually to give it a strictly provisional acceptance. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 156, March 19, 1919] Reference
The Utilitarians saw in the dogged obstructiveness of. From Wordnik.com. [The English Utilitarians, Volume II (of 3) James Mill] Reference
Her spirit felt crushed and broken by the obstructiveness of all about her. From Wordnik.com. [The Great Amulet] Reference
They represented the conservatism which sought to distinguish itself from mere obstructiveness. From Wordnik.com. [The English Utilitarians, Volume II (of 3) James Mill] Reference
Its rapid development, and the huge increase in its emissions, means its obstructiveness must be overcome. From Wordnik.com. [Grist - the Latest from Grist] Reference
Every one recognises that cantankerous obstructiveness would only make matters worse, nay, absolutely intolerable. From Wordnik.com. [America To-day, Observations and Reflections] Reference
I don't know if the Chinese authorities wanted us to suffer global humiliation but the obstructiveness seemed wilful. From Wordnik.com. [Independent.ie - Frontpage RSS Feed] Reference
They would sit silent, more bodeful of the direct antagonism of things than of their insensate and stolid obstructiveness. From Wordnik.com. [Jude the Obscure] Reference
Less a "to-do" list, then, than "to-undo"; the Left seems determined to cement its reputation for obdurate obstructiveness. From Wordnik.com. [Latest News Online - The Indian Express] Reference
Between his work for Stoller and what sometimes seemed the obstructiveness of General Triscoe, Burnamy was not very much with Miss. From Wordnik.com. [Their Silver Wedding Journey — Complete] Reference
War, and Lord Newton's alleged obstructiveness in regard to the treatment and exchange of prisoners has been discussed in the Lords. From Wordnik.com. [Mr. Punch's History of the Great War] Reference
Mellersh had had to be mentioned, because of his obstructiveness, but she had carefully kept him from overflowing outside the limits of necessity. From Wordnik.com. [The Enchanted April] Reference
Riquet bore the labour of that canal -- and the calumny and obstructiveness, too, which tried to prevent its formation; France bore the expense; Louis. From Wordnik.com. [Prose Idylls, New and Old] Reference
We need hardly speak in the language of detestation of this species of obstructiveness, which prevents hundreds of valuable schemes of social melioration from being entered into. From Wordnik.com. [Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 456 Volume 18, New Series, September 25, 1852] Reference
That is, I judged from various little indications that Mr. Brooks used his will to urge himself on against some obstructiveness felt in the current mood and movement of his mind. From Wordnik.com. [Brave Men and Women Their Struggles, Failures, And Triumphs] Reference
It had one good effect; while Mrs Balls was sodding about with this obstructiveness which turned out to be irrelevant in a dead market, at least she wasn't doing more damage elsewhere. From Wordnik.com. [Guy Fawkes' blog] Reference
Towards the end, he wandered about outside the railings in Bridge Street, and, as the clock struck four, got the umbrella as near as its natural obstructiveness would permit to the carriage-gate whence the. From Wordnik.com. [Faces and Places] Reference
One side seemed to think that similar imports would be forthcoming to-day but for the obstructiveness of the British Government, while the other was confident that Russia had nothing to export save propaganda. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 159, December 8, 1920] Reference
The race is not in the long run to the phenomenally swift nor the battle to the phenomenally strong, but to the good average all-round organism that is alike shy of Radical crotchets and old world obstructiveness. From Wordnik.com. [Luck or Cunning?] Reference
Only the obstructiveness of our Government prevented the still more easy pacification of the European provinces of Turkey in 1876, and caused the present war with all its harm to British trade and all its risks to "British interests."'. From Wordnik.com. [The Life of the Rt. Hon. Sir Charles W. Dilke, Volume 1] Reference
The only antidote to the recklessness or obstructiveness of extreme parties lay in dissolution; but to dissolve a parliament just elected, as Victor Emmanuel had once been forced to do already, would be a fatal expedient if repeated often. From Wordnik.com. [Cavour]
He had sallied forth into that tropical jungle of festooned obstructiveness, of intertwisted irresponsibilities, of crouching prejudices, of abuses grown stiff and rigid with antiquity, which for so many years to come was destined to lure reforming ministers to their doom. From Wordnik.com. [Florence Nightingale: Part III] Reference
Parliament from the presence, and therefore from the obstructiveness, of the Home Rulers, readily assume that the formula of "Colonial independence" contains the solution of the problem how to satisfy at once the demand of Ireland for independence and the resolution of Great. From Wordnik.com. [England's Case Against Home Rule] Reference
The wings of her soul were broken by the cruel obstructiveness of all about her; and even had she seen herself in a promising way of getting to Budmouth, entering a steamer, and sailing to some opposite port, she would have been but little more buoyant, so fearfully malignant were other things. From Wordnik.com. [The Return of the Native] Reference
The immorality of many of their maxims, their too frequent connivance at political wrong for the sake of power, their inflexible malice against opponents, and the cupidity and obstructiveness of the years of their decrepitude, have blinded us to the many meritorious pages of the Jesuit chronicle. From Wordnik.com. [Diderot and the Encyclopædists (Vol 1 of 2)] Reference
Clever fops and dull pedants joined in sneering at this new activity and inquisitiveness of mind, and this grave interest and employment of intellect on questions and in methods outside the customary line of University studies and prejudices; but the men were too powerful, and their work too genuine and effective, and too much in harmony with the temper and tendencies of the time, to be stopped by impertinence and obstructiveness. From Wordnik.com. [Occasional Papers Selected from the Guardian, the Times, and the Saturday Review, 1846-1890] Reference
But chances are – if your techies are any good – it’s not obstructiveness at all: it’s professionalism. From Wordnik.com. [Blessed are the developers at Helpful Technology] Reference
I had no patience with their obstructiveness. From Wordnik.com. [A Body In The Bath House]
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