obscurantist

• You working men complain of the clergy for being bigoted and obscurantist, and hating the cause of the people. —  Alton Locke, Tailor And Poet
• Although the epithets are more rarefied--here it's "obscurantist" and "crypto-Cartesian" rather than "liberal" or "right-wing"--recent exchanges between neuroscientists and philosophers of mind (and in each group among themselves) feature the same sort of relentless defensiveness and stark opinionated name calling we expect from irate Congressmen or trash-talking linebackers. —  Omni: October 1993
• As a matter of fact it was this very quality of his which gave him such a lofty and lordly contempt for the obscurantist theologian. —  THE PRIVATE LIFE OF HENRY MAITLAND
• Selecting an obscure, obscurantist, governor whose years as a PTA member outnumber her years in elected office by a margin of 2 to 1 shows that John McCain is serious about who's going to be boss in his administration. —  Progressive Democrats of America Blog
• Terms such as "astonishingly crass", "obscurantist", "cavalier" or "complete rubbish" were characteristic put-downs. professors —  University Diaries

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