All 3 Uses of
inscrutable
in
David Copperfield
- I am too well aware that when, in the inscrutable decrees of Fate, you were reserved for me, it is possible you may have been reserved for one, destined, after a protracted struggle, at length to fall a victim to pecuniary involvements of a complicated nature.†
Chpt 28-30
- 'In what is that man assisting him, who never looks at me without an inscrutable falsehood in his eyes?†
Chpt 28-30 *
- The more my aunt looked at him, the more he reproached her; for she had lately taken to spectacles, and for some inscrutable reason he considered the glasses personal.†
Chpt 46-48
Definition:
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(inscrutable) impossible to understand -- often when finding a person's facial expression or comments mysterious