variants
or obscurantic
as in shadowy
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for obscurant
Adjective
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The Oldest House is the FBC’s headquarters, and serves as the central location of 2019’s Control — although the shadowy org also plays a smaller tangential role in the Alan Wake series.—
Jason Fanelli,
Rolling Stone,
14 May 2025 -
Things look bleak — until a shadowy character with a white beard comes to break him out of the jailhouse, killing whoever gets in the way.—
Jocelyn Noveck,
Boston Herald,
9 May 2025
Adjective
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Guitarist Johnstone was alternately audible and indistinct.—
George Varga,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
10 May 2025
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Sherlock and Amelia are not exactly mentor and mentee, but something less interesting and indistinct.—
Nina Metz,
Chicago Tribune,
16 Apr. 2025
Adjective
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From the foggy castles of ancient England to the rain drenched alleys of contemporary Paris, his craft makes readers lose the sense of time and space.—
Sixteen Ramos,
USA Today,
9 May 2025
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There are sometimes only images: foggy white drizzle, melted rainbows in a gasoline puddle, pink foam insulation bursting between slats of splintered wood.—
Jia Tolentino,
New Yorker,
3 May 2025
Adjective
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The image is hazy because the low light and long exposures can add digital noise to Perseverance's images.—
Robert Z. Pearlman,
Space.com,
16 May 2025
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Skyscrapers towered over a hazy, Saharan landscape — a vibrant melting pot of modernist and historical sites and structures, situated on a confluence of the Nile River.—
Emmanuel Akinwotu,
NPR,
16 May 2025
Adjective
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The rain, which arrived in the North Bay part of the region late Sunday was expected to migrate to the South Bay and drop light, misty rain measuring in the tenths of inches through the afternoon, NWS meteorologist Dial Hoang said.—
Jim Harrington,
Mercury News,
6 Apr. 2025
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The present-day Affleck and titular accountant from The Accountant 2 seems to briefly reach out and touch the Sad Affleck of days of yore in this final memory, his eyes almost misty and voice quiet.—
Fran Hoepfner,
Vulture,
28 Apr. 2025
Adjective
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This Week: May 19-25, 2025 As the moon continues to wane from being full last week, the night skies darken enough to find faint stars and constellations.—
Jamie Carter,
Forbes.com,
19 May 2025
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It’s filled with no-nonsense retinol and has a faint medicinal smell.—
Mary Honkus,
Glamour,
16 May 2025
Adjective
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The aim, in both cases, is the same: to make thought and emotion indistinguishable.—
Adam Gopnik,
New Yorker,
14 May 2025
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Economic and security interests became indistinguishable, and technological fragmentation—if not outright decoupling from China—became the norm.—
Ian Bremmer,
Foreign Affairs,
13 May 2025
Adjective
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The three-year-old thoroughbred finished ahead of 18 other horses on a muddy track at Churchill Downs Racetrack on May 3 but will not be looking to repeat the feat at the Pimlico Race Course on Saturday.—
Ben Church,
CNN Money,
17 May 2025
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Matches were crude and violent and played on muddy pitches.—
Pablo Maurer,
New York Times,
16 May 2025
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“Obscurant.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/obscurant. Accessed 23 May. 2025.
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