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Cryptic
"Cryptic" in a Sentence (19 examples)
Baffled by Sherlock Holmes' cryptic remarks, Watson wondered whether Holmes was intentionally concealing his thoughts about the crime.
Things are getting a little more cryptic!
Tom was writing cryptic notes in a cipher.
Samuel R. Delany is a mulatto American sci-fi writer. His interesting writings often entail sexual issues in an outer space setting. Whilst the writings of the British knighted sci-fi writer Arthur C. Clarke are less titillating, he ventures into cryptic sexual symbolisms.
James's message was really cryptic.
He spends a lot of time doing cryptic crossword puzzles.
Miroslav only gave Anna cryptic answers.
Mary's cryptic message left Tom on edge, wondering what she meant.
Tom is cryptic, isn't he?
In such a drunken state, keeping etiquette is unrealistic; If it is maintained, then it’s odd and cryptic.
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I think the Original of this conceit might be, That the Students of Nature, conſcious to her more cryptick wayes of working, reſolve many ſtrange effects into the nearer efficiency of ſecond cauſes[…]
Even the putatively innocuous whimsical shapes and designs of cakes and pastry, notably in Central Europe, retain to this day the phallic concept, the cryptic induration of the aphrodisiac function.
Lonomia caterpillars are extremely cryptic.
cryptic colouring
Episematic characters are far less common than aposematic, and these than cryptic; although, as regards the latter comparison, the opposite impression is generally produced from the fact that concealment is so successfully attained.
cryptic species
Much of the Permian Capitan reef was strongly differentiated into open surface and cryptic communities.
He settled down to the cryptic in the Independent. He loved his crossword. It kept him mentally active, just as gossip did his wife.
This writer has been solving cryptics for 40 years and can usually crack Araucaria, though it might take a couple of days.
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