0 present participle of obfuscate
1 to make something less clear and harder to understand, especially intentionally:
She was criticized for using arguments that obfuscated the main issue.
A major problem, evident within several papers, is language use, which at times can be irritatingly obfuscating, impenetrable and, in effect, discouraging.
When giving business news, the phrase fiscal drag (whatever that may mean) becomes a truly obfuscating 'fiscal drug'.
Such estimations were vague at best and obfuscating at worst.
Programmes relatively susceptible to obfuscating reforms have suffered larger cutbacks than other programmes.
It also carries us across the divide from the more constructive aspects of postmodern and semiotic theory to their most obfuscating and irritating.
These essays, in the main, reflect the high-technology imperatives of a communication revolution in which messages have given way to infinitely obfuscating processes.
If these are our choices, then it is hardly surprising if theorists devote themselves to sophisticated projects in obfuscation-the more sophisticated, the more successfully obfuscating.
The life of the analyst or logician would, in short, appear to be beside the point-window dressing at best, obfuscating at worst.
