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Meanings of obfuscation in English

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ofuscació

Confusion resulting from failure to understand.

      ofuscació
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      Examples for "bewilderment"
      Examples for "bewilderment"
      1
      In recent months, others have viewed my return to Mauretania with bewilderment.
      Daughters of the Nile
      2
      Norine seated herself weakly; she stared in bewilderment at the unhappy speaker.
      Rainbow's End
      3
      This is a time of great bewilderment and anxiety for school leaders.
      The Irish Times
      4
      In the silence of utter bewilderment they went together into the summer-house.
      Little Novels
      5
      The best I had in this bewilderment was trust in the doctor.
      Who Goes There? / The Story of a Spy in the Civil War
      1
      When her older children came home, she lost her almost neurotic puzzlement.
      The new yorker
      2
      I have walked my floor, deep in thought, in puzzlement, in indecision.
      The Agony Column
      3
      Above the puzzlement of the stranger she heard the chuckling of Lur.
      The Gifts of Asti
      4
      But what troubled her was his expression: it was all open puzzlement.
      Orb Sceptre Throne
      5
      First, his gray eyebrows arched abruptly in surprise, then sank in puzzlement.
      The Man on the Box
      1
      It represents business as usual, mutual mystification- aSino-Americantradition of long standing.
      The new yorker
      2
      But the clerk saw merely the mystification which he desired to create.
      A Thief in the Night: A Book of Raffles' Adventures
      3
      Frank exploded at the idea, and added to the mystification by saying,-
      Jack and Jill
      4
      All around her the other children were waking up in bleary-eyed mystification.
      The Naked God
      5
      The young man looked surprised, and he began to suspect another mystification.
      Homeward Bound; Or, the Chase: A Tale of the Sea
      1
      The contemporaneous New York Times review could hardly have expressed greater bemusement.
      The Irish Times
      2
      Broderick looks on in wide-eyed bemusement on hearing this read to him.
      The Irish Times
      3
      Facebook Twitter Pinterest Wes Brown shows his bemusement after being sent off.
      The Guardian
      4
      The look he got from Rhodey was part bemusement and part irritation.
      Iron Man
      5
      If you don't clearly delineate, like myself, you are met with bemusement.
      The Guardian
      1
      A rough justice had prevailed, and I felt more bafflement than regret.
      Deadly Décisions
      2
      To his own bafflement Messi scooped the ball past the right-hand post.
      The Guardian
      3
      Sophie looks up from shepherding the giraffes, her brow knotting in bafflement.
      The crimson petal and the white
      4
      Marphissa spread her hands in bafflement, eyes fixed on her own display.
      Tarnished Knight
      5
      To her relief, the others burst out laughing at their friend's bafflement.
      The Getting of Wisdom
      1
      He was deducted a point, almost defaulted; McEnroe's expression is pure befuddlement.
      The Guardian
      2
      Klingmann had an expression of befuddlement that was about to become suspicion.
      The Beast Within
      3
      Gods knew he did not begrudge her a few days' befuddlement.
      The Scar
      4
      Outrage bleeds into befuddlement: we want to shout something, but what?
      The new yorker
      5
      Locke rapidly cased the public gallery once again while he feigned good-natured befuddlement.
      The lies of locke lamora
      Usage of obfuscation in English
      1
      Whether or not that obfuscation happened is still up in the air.
      Wired
      2
      That is plenty of time for a bit more obfuscation and bewilderment.
      The Guardian
      3
      Same obfuscation, the difference being the fear she sensed from Ivan Gogol.
      Raging Heat
      4
      A bigger problem with obfuscation is that it doesn't curtail online tracking.
      Wired
      5
      Their answers only lead to obfuscation in an already confused situation.
      The Irish Times
      6
      Minifying scripts reduces response times without carrying the risks that come with obfuscation.
      High performance web sites
      7
      Believe me I have done a fair amount of obfuscation in my time.
      The Guardian
      8
      When his obfuscation didn't work, Murdoch fell back on saying sorry.
      The Guardian
      9
      The exercise, however, offered Ministers a platform for self-justification and obfuscation.
      The Irish Times
      10
      The ultimate decision has to consider the additional size reductions achieved from obfuscation.
      High performance web sites
      11
      As this inconvenient truth became apparent, obfuscation over the science increased.
      Reuters
      12
      Mostly when the operating principle seems to be denial and obfuscation.
      The Guardian
      13
      Our target uses active defenses to protect his vaults, not obfuscation.
      Skin Game
      14
      When Sixsmith starts to investigate, he encounters evasion and obfuscation at every turn.
      The Irish Times
      15
      I don't like the obfuscation, a finger-pointing Lynch shouted at Geithner.
      Reuters
      16
      Is the whole of the government's Brexit strategy built on lies and obfuscation?
      The Guardian
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