Obstructive
[əb'strʌktɪv]
Definition
(a.) Tending to obstruct; presenting obstacles; hindering; causing impediment.
(n.) An obstructive person or thing.
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Examples
- Government is then at once irrelevant and mischievous--a mere obstructive nuisance. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- It seems possible that business has had to control politics because its laws were so stupidly obstructive. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- He looked ready for anything in the way of an obstructive proceeding--capable even of keeping the peace with Rachel for one of the combatants! Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- Plenty of obstructive material to work on here! Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- I see you are getting tired and stupid, Ben, said Mrs. Garth, accustomed to these obstructive arguments from her male offspring. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
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