Sample Sentences for
cryptic
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    "Unnecessarily cryptic," said Flora out loud.  (source)
    cryptic = secretive or difficult to understand
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    Taa also had a penchant for uttering cryptic one-liners about my father, usually after she'd downed a couple of shots of Brugal.  (source)
    cryptic = difficult to understand
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    Only old Benjamin refused to grow enthusiastic about the windmill, though, as usual, he would utter nothing beyond the cryptic remark that donkeys live a long time.  (source)
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    I was tired of the cryptic messages that she so often delivered; messages that seemed not meant for me but instead simply her thoughts escaping.  (source)
    cryptic = difficult to understand
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    "You're going to like this," she said cryptically.†  (source)
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    'You're very big with the cryptics, Bourne.†  (source)
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    Plagued by yesterday's cryptic text message, she'd spent half the night thinking and furiously knitting a purple hat with earflaps.  (source)
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    "Not at this time," replied the secretary cryptically.†  (source)
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    I kept the request cryptic, of course, and asked to meet away from the Sev.  (source)
    cryptic = secretive
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    After sampling his own wares and grunting cryptically, he gave each man a slice.†  (source)
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    A guy named Jake Blansen came in and said some cryptic things about Richard.  (source)
    cryptic = difficult to understand
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    "Is Africa declining?" he responded cryptically.†  (source)
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    Ongoing arguments about the "correct" interpretation of some cryptic passage in Anorak's Almanac.†  (source)
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