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

We need hardly speak in the language of detestation of this species of obstructiveness, which prevents hundreds of valuable schemes of social melioration from being entered into.

From Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 456 Volume 18, New Series, September 25, 1852 by Chambers, Robert

Yet it is a great responsibility to continue the full evil in all its sharpness and obstructiveness, on the grounds that its abatement is an impediment to larger relief.

From Bygones Worth Remembering, Vol. 1 (of 2) by Holyoake, George Jacob

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