abstruse

Example Sentences

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Mr. Barnes has long brought something exotic to English literature, but never anything so abstruse as to become alienating.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 16, 2026

That might sound like an abstruse philosophical argument, but he says it's a hot debate within the scientific community.

From Salon • Jun. 15, 2025

I wasn’t expecting to write such a sentence about an abstract and some might even say abstruse Sondheim musical that has had only one short-lived Broadway revival.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 12, 2024

Higgs, who shared the 2013 Nobel Prize in Physics and spent almost his entire career at the University of Edinburgh, could be as retiring as his work was abstruse.

From Science Magazine • Apr. 10, 2024

The outfit was acceptable by any theological and geometrical standards, however abstruse, and suggested a rich inner life.

From "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole