obfuscatory

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Obama's rationalizations were artfully made to the point of being obfuscatory, but they can be boiled down to three points:

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  • "Metafiction" is a word used in criticism to damn writing more often than not; especially in this country, it's frequently presented as ivory tower excess, obfuscatory, the enemy of American plain-speaking.
  • One of them is clear and principled; the other is gauzy, ambiguous, obfuscatory, and disingenuous. —  Discriminations
  • Either that (illiteracy and ignorance) is the explanation, or he can read and does understand that he lost this argument decisively, and so prefers to post irrelevant obfuscatory nonsense. —  California Literary Review
  • The most laughably incomplete, muddled, pretentious, and obfuscatory bullshit presentation about anarchism I have ever witnessed. —  Rochester IMC
  • Should I listen to the laughably incomplete, muddled, pretentious, and obfuscatory bullshit from anon? —  Rochester IMC
 

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