obstructiveness

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The shutdown and eventual nationalisation of Orano's operations have been surrounded by mutual recrimination, with the government and the company accusing each other of obstructiveness.

From BBC • Aug. 26, 2025

Never has a collegiate women’s player possessed the combination of Griner’s size, mobility, soft shooting touch, effortless dunking and elegant obstructiveness, which allows her to block shots while hardly ever drifting into foul trouble.

From New York Times • Mar. 23, 2012

They would sit silent, more bodeful of the direct antagonism of things than of their insensate and stolid obstructiveness.

From Jude the Obscure by Hardy, Thomas

Michael, Wedderburn, and Maurice displayed their most polite obstructiveness, but in the end each of them found himself upright, stiff-backed and exasperated.

From Sinister Street, vol. 2 by MacKenzie, Compton

Several critics of democracy have accused it not only of rash iconoclasm, but of obstinate conservatism and obstructiveness.

From Outspoken Essays by Inge, William Ralph