All 3 Uses of
inscrutable
in
A Tale of Two Cities
- In any of the burial-places of this city through which I pass, is there a sleeper more inscrutable than its busy inhabitants are, in their innermost personality, to me, or than I am to them?†
Chpt 1.3 *
- What time, the mail-coach lumbered, jolted, rattled, and bumped upon its tedious way, with its three fellow-inscrutables inside.†
Chpt 1.3
- The smooth manner of the spy, curiously in dissonance with his ostentatiously rough dress, and probably with his usual demeanour, received such a check from the inscrutability of Carton,—who was a mystery to wiser and honester men than he,—that it faltered here and failed him.†
Chpt 3.8
Definition:
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(inscrutable) impossible to understand -- often when finding a person's facial expression or comments mysterious