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inscrutable
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  • At first he considered saving money by sleeping outside on a bench but he was without guides and the inscrutability of the nearby signs unnerved him.  (source)
    inscrutability = state of not being understandable
  • The black man's face was empty, inscrutable.  (source)
    inscrutable = impossible to read or understand
  • "Ready," Archie said, keeping his face expressionless, inscrutable as usual, even though he felt a bead of perspiration trace a cold path from his armpit to his rib.  (source)
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  • The Buddha's eyes quietly looked to the ground; quietly, in perfect equanimity his inscrutable face was smiling.  (source)
    inscrutable = impossible to understand
  • Farid lowered his head and gazed inscrutably at his bare toes.†  (source)
  • Secure, however, in the inscrutability of my place of concealment, I felt no embarrassment whatever.  (source)
    inscrutability = obscureness (the quality of being hard to find or understand)
  • The Polizei scrutinize my inscrutables, then let me go.†  (source)
  • It was constant, the only eternal thing, inscrutable, detached, dispassionate.†  (source)
    inscrutable = impossible to understand
  • Eric nearly dropped the glass he was holding, for Vivaldo had thrown him off balance; he grinned up into Vivaldo's grinning face; and was aware, behind Vivaldo, of Ida, inscrutably watching, and the policeman, waiting.†  (source)
  • Did I detect an increase in bland inscrutability  (source)
  • What time, the mail-coach lumbered, jolted, rattled, and bumped upon its tedious way, with its three fellow-inscrutables inside.†  (source)
  • Her eyes wet but inscrutable, cast inward to private thoughts.†  (source)
  • He smiled inscrutably, but did not answer.†  (source)
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