obtruse

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Many people may still suppose that these matters belong to the realm of speculation and obtruse scientific investigation, but the present fact is that we all live in this new resonating, simultaneous world in which the relation between figure and ground, public and performer, goal-seeking and role-playing, centralism and decentralism, have simply flipped and reversed again and again.

The End of the Work Ethic 1972
There is no cold obtruse reasoning nor loud emptiness in his speeches.

The Cyclopedia of the Colored Baptists of Alabama Their Leaders and Their Work 1895