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  • adjective superlative form of obscure: most obscure.

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Examples

  • Devil be damned! he shouted his loudest and most belligerent, as he ruffled like a bravo at the gutter-cat beneath him, so that he sent her crouching, with startlement, lower to the floor, her ears wilting rigidly flat and down, her tail lashing, her head turning about the room so that her eyes might penetrate its obscurest corners in quest of the human whose voice had so cried out.

    CHAPTER XX 2010

  •  We can't help but keep writing, this art form of you not dead, we still clinging to obscurest hope.

    Thinly Sliced Raw Fish 2010

  • And if I see a single mention of the Chanler name in the obscurest fish wrapper, I shall sue you for everything you have, do you understand?

    The Curse of the Wendigo William James Henry 2010

  • And if I see a single mention of the Chanler name in the obscurest fish wrapper, I shall sue you for everything you have, do you understand?

    The Curse of the Wendigo William James Henry 2010

  • I deliberately haven't named his country up to now, because I wanted to tell the human story of someone with whom I have only the obscurest of links.

    The Death of V nwhyte 2008

  • Well, there is a brief (almost disinterested) explanation in the obscurest scientific terms possible ... so it really does not matter.

    Hidden Gems of Pulp Science Fiction, Part 2 2008

  • And if I see a single mention of the Chanler name in the obscurest fish wrapper, I shall sue you for everything you have, do you understand?

    The Curse of the Wendigo William James Henry 2010

  • Lovecraft's "The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath" - all written in a purple prose of A. Merritt, though with more action and clarity ... extremely rare adventure, published in the obscurest fanzine of them all (not even one proper mention on the web!).

    Rare and Beautiful Fantasy Gems by C. L. Moore and Henry Kuttner 2008

  • Some years ago, a partner who was a code breaking addict used to send me coded love letters concealed in the obscurest of places - taped under library shelves, in rubbish dumps, buried in banks of flowers which magically appeared in my garden during the early hours, taped to my car windscreen and so on.

    GSOH Newmania 2007

  • We're hearing some people say how much they're annoyed by other people, people can't stand the obscurest.

    CNN Transcript Aug 23, 2009 2009

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