单词 | obfuscator |
释义 | obfuscatorn. A person who or thing which obfuscates. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > want of knowledge, ignorance > intellectual ignorance > [noun] > opposition to enlightenment > one who opposes obscurant1799 offuscant1799 benighter1818 obscurantist1827 ignorantist1841 obfuscator1841 obscurist1917 1841 Southern Literary Messenger 7 196 Let a legislator or lawyer..have any subject in hand..and what will this Obfuscator do? Why, without the least apparent difficulty or trouble to himself, he will..make it ‘confusion worse confounded’. 1935 S. Walker Mrs. Astor's Horse (1937) 1 In Washington Franklin D. Roosevelt, the Great Obfuscator, was frightening the solvent with his program to ‘Tax the Rich’. 1976 Yale French Stud. 53 202 The old obfuscator had returned and was once more challenging the world to discover the meaning of his art. 2000 Racing Post (Electronic ed.) 9 June You've heard of the golden handshake and the golden handcuffs, now let me present, ladies and gentlemen, that modern obfuscator of reality: ‘the golden tongue-strap’. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, March 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1841 |
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