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  • noun one who creates ambiguous works.

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Examples

  • 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.

    CNN Transcript Aug 23, 2009 2009

  • I mean really, MUST "good" equal obscurist and dreary?

    Great Dresses in Mediocre Literature (a continuing series) - A Dress A Day 2007

  • 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

  • When Diablo Cody pushed her obscurist horror propaganda in

    Filmcritic.com Movie Reviews 2009

  • When Diablo Cody pushed her obscurist horror propaganda in

    Filmcritic.com Movie Reviews 2009

  • 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.

    Culture | guardian.co.uk 2009

  • Still, in an effort to avoid repetition, without being obscurist, these were some favourites:

    Drowned In Sound // Feed 2009

  • It turns out that his dense, obscurist writings were all to do with the 2008 baseball season.

    AZ Snakepit Jim McLennan 2008

  • 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

  • From now on, I’ll know that your posts aren’t even worth reading because all they contain are lies and exterem obscurist views.

    Think Progress » Murtha on Rove: ‘He’s Sitting in His Air-Conditioned Office on His Big, Fat Backside, Saying Stay the Course’ 2006

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