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abstruse
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synonyms: recondite ???
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Definition:not easily understood; obscure; esoteric
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the argument as to what they were supposedly arguing about grew extraordinarily involved and abstruse, with subtle hagglings over definitions, enormous digressions, quarrels— threats, even, to appeal to higher authority.
George Orwell. 1984 (1949)
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"Harry, how can you?" "My dear Dorian, it is quite true. I am analysing women at present, so I ought to know. The subject is not so abstruse as I thought it was. I find that, ultimately, there are only two kinds of women, the plain and the coloured. The plain women are very useful. If you want to gain a reputation for respectability, you have merely to take them down to supper.
Oscar Wilde. The Picture of Dorian Gray
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“Dis yer matter ’bout persistence, feller-niggers,” said Sam, with the air of one entering into an abstruse subject, “dis yer ’sistency ’s a thing what an’t seed into very clar, by most anybody. [...]"
Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852)
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In this abstruse pursuit; in making an account for Peggotty, of all the property into which she had come; i
Charles Dickens. David Copperfield (1850)
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