inscrutable
Example Sentences
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Though the diary entry concedes that Mansfield was “so intelligent & inscrutable that she repays friendship,” the two women wouldn’t become friends.
She wore navy silk riding clothes, and sapphires, and an expression as inscrutable as the sea.
From Literature
There’s a stilted quality to the conversation as they discuss their eccentric, inscrutable dad.
From Los Angeles Times
He sat and stared at his screen, positioned away from the audience, as inscrutable as someone at a cafe working on a laptop.
From Los Angeles Times
Although Leo is more inscrutable than Francis, Catholics are beginning to get a better sense of the man beneath the cassock.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
