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- noun one who creates
ambiguous works.
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Examples
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Finally the obscurist, I get these all the time, where you look at the status updates, right, and you have no idea what these people are talking about.
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I mean really, MUST "good" equal obscurist and dreary?
Great Dresses in Mediocre Literature (a continuing series) - A Dress A Day 2007
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A self-proclaimed gender obscurist, Billy Bloom's flamboyant, technicolor, cross-dressing ways make him a prime target for bullying in his conservative new school.
LJWorld.com stories: News J-W Staff Reports 2010
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When Diablo Cody pushed her obscurist horror propaganda in
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When Diablo Cody pushed her obscurist horror propaganda in
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Some of the dramatist's obituaries treated him as an intellectual obscurist who never quite broke through to the general public; but his plays for ITV in the 1960s were seen by dozens of millions, part of the democratisation of drama that the new medium achieved.
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Still, in an effort to avoid repetition, without being obscurist, these were some favourites:
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It turns out that his dense, obscurist writings were all to do with the 2008 baseball season.
AZ Snakepit Jim McLennan 2008
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Baltimore's The Oranges Band have been plugging away for the better part of a decade, somewhat quietly releasing catchy and scrappy indie rock records with left-field touchstones sure to perk the ears of the dedicated obscurist. 2006's The World and Everything In It was a truly underrated record -- an almost-perfect marriage of post-punk and bittersweet pop melody.
DCist 2008
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From now on, I’ll know that your posts aren’t even worth reading because all they contain are lies and exterem obscurist views.
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