enigma
Example Sentences
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Enter Digby, a handsome, quick-witted and wealthy enigma who smells faintly of fig.
Most of my book is devoted to trying to sort out this political enigma, and how the movement and its consequences might be understood.
From Salon
While much of “Fatherland” feels underdeveloped, it is to Ms. Shorr’s credit that she has let Martin remain a disturbing enigma.
Mueller, who served as a Marine, was something of an enigma even to aides and was rarely spotted on the social circuit.
She was a practiced, phenomenal flirt, “Now, Doctor—be candid!—am I not correct when I say you are an enigma past finding out? You know I am.”
From Literature
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
