obstructiveness
Example Sentences
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The shutdown and eventual nationalisation of Orano's operations have been surrounded by mutual recrimination, with the government and the company accusing each other of obstructiveness.
From BBC • Aug. 26, 2025
Never has a collegiate women’s player possessed the combination of Griner’s size, mobility, soft shooting touch, effortless dunking and elegant obstructiveness, which allows her to block shots while hardly ever drifting into foul trouble.
From New York Times • Mar. 23, 2012
Michael, Wedderburn, and Maurice displayed their most polite obstructiveness, but in the end each of them found himself upright, stiff-backed and exasperated.
From Sinister Street, vol. 2 by MacKenzie, Compton
Every one recognises that cantankerous obstructiveness would only make matters worse, nay, absolutely intolerable.
From America To-day, Observations and Reflections by Archer, William
They would sit silent, more bodeful of the direct antagonism of things than of their insensate and stolid obstructiveness.
From Jude the Obscure by Hardy, Thomas
