4 uses
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Definition
secretive or difficult to understand
- No young cloaked men issuing cryptic warnings.Chapter 9 (1% in)
- Kartik is at my desk, no doubt leaving me another cryptic warning.Chapter 11 (10% in)
- She gives me a cryptic smile.Chapter 16 (74% in)
- "But so much is within our reach now," Felicity says, cryptically.Chapter 24 (5% in)
There are no more uses of "cryptic" in A Great and Terrible Beauty.
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