obscurantist

The course instructor, Daniel Gabriel, a young poet, found her student verse, as he told Spiegelman, “overwritten, obscurantist and difficult.”

Even his most devoted followers sometimes wonder whether his obscurantist tweets are serious or are made in jest.

The Taliban is unlikely to veer too far from its obscurantist ideology, and expecting its transformation is unrealistic — whether carrots or sticks are deployed.

It came to be regarded, outside the community of believers, as the temple of an obscurantist faith-group that refused any contact with actual science and reason.

By its mere existence, a new government center could “reinforce obscurantist or conspiratorial discourse” rather than stifling it, he says.