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obscurely
[ uhb-skyoor-lee ]
adverb
- in a way that is not expressed clearly or plainly; ambiguously or vaguely:
This question, although obscurely phrased, is one of the easiest interview questions to answer if you approach it properly.
- in a way that is hard to discern or identify, or is not clear to the understanding:
The end of the story made me wonder if Lila had only imagined the whole thing鈥攁 reading that felt obscurely troubling to me.
- in a way that is not prominent or famous or that garners little public attention or importance:
In the 17th century, the game of cricket grew up obscurely and locally as a game of the common people.
- in a place that is out of the way and not easy to find or notice:
The church is small and stands to one side of the village, rather obscurely.
We trekked to an obscurely located arch of rock, hidden in a remote pocket of northern Arizona.
- in a dim or murky way; faintly:
In Poe鈥檚 poem, the 鈥渟ad Soul鈥 doomed to live in Dream-Land sees everything through 鈥渄arkened glasses,鈥 erroneously and obscurely.
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亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins
Origin of obscurely1
Example Sentences
First came Joel Thompson鈥檚 鈥淭o See the Sky,鈥 obscurely subtitled 鈥渁n exegesis for orchestra.鈥
The viral meme infiltrating our fraught politics began obscurely on a New Zealand radio show on which the hosts help rationalize absurd, illogical purchases their listeners share with them.
You would have to include the Air Force Association and the obscurely named Submarine Industrial Base Council, among others.
But it鈥檚 oddly reassuring, and obscurely enlivening, to know they exist.
Republicans do their "managing" a bit more obscurely, but even more harmfully for the whole idea of democracy.
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