obfuscatoryadj.
/ˌɒbfʌˈskeɪt(ə)ri/, /ˌɒbfəˈskeɪt(ə)ri/, /ɒbˈfʌskət(ə)ri/, U.S. /ɑbˈfəskəˌtɔri/ That obfuscates (esp. a subject, the understanding, etc.); intended to confuse or deceive. Also: characterized by obfuscation.
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1929 I. A. Richards Pract. Criticism App. 356 (note) Or as some would say, using a word which now has in these conections only an obfuscatory value, ‘instinctively’.
1956 Jrnl. Hist. Ideas 17 253 Throughout the [interwar] period the League [of Nations] played an obfuscatory rôle, confusing the issues at every opportunity.
1972 Daily Tel. 11 Aug. 12/1 The word has a great obfuscatory future. For it can be used..by any public man to make the total obliteration of a place..appear not as the outrage it obviously is, but as a boon and blessing to mankind.
2002 Entertainm. Weekly 18 Jan. 63/4 Turturro..is unquestionably the vociferous center of this TNT movie, emitting a verbal spray that is at once ornate, orotund, and obfuscatory.
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