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How to pronounce obscurantist in English?

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Type Words
Type of beguiler, cheat, cheater, deceiver, slicker, trickster
Derivation obscurantism

Examples of obscurantist

obscurantist
But not every Churchman who doubted that path was an obscurantist or an authoritarian.
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The Taliban, though famously obscurantist, have embraced mobile telephony.
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The religious establishment continues to be obscurantist, even medieval.
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They left the obscurantist thugs in even firmer control of the region.
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But that battle was quickly won, and most were quietly glad to see the obscurantist Taliban defeated.
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Liberals saw a division between educated, tolerant Christians and narrow-minded, obscurantist Christians.
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Yet there are Arab best-sellers, often obscurantist screeds on the Koran that no critic is permitted to challenge.
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Some arch-conservative clerics have been ousted from top posts and forbidden from proclaiming obscurantist fatwas.
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Liberals saw a division between educated, tolerant Christians and narrow-minded, tribal, obscurantist Christians.
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More examples
  • A person who is deliberately vague
  • (obscurantism) a policy of opposition to enlightenment or the spread of knowledge
  • (obscurantism) a deliberate act intended to make something obscure
  • A policy of opposition to enlightenment or the spread of knowledge
  • A deliberate act intended to make something obscure
  • (obscurantist) a person who is deliberately vague
  • Obscurantism (/u0252bu02C8skju028Au0259ru0259nu02CCtu026Azu0259m, u0259b-/ or /u02CCu0252bskju028Au02C8ru00E6ntu026Azu0259m/) is the practice of deliberately preventing the facts or the full details of some matter from becoming known...
  • A state of opposition to human progress or enlightenment; Being deliberately obscure or vague