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Definition of sphinxlike in English: sphinxlikeadjectiveˈsfɪŋkslʌɪkˈsfɪŋksˌlaɪk Difficult to interpret or understand; inscrutable. Hughes will forever remain a sphinxlike enigma Example sentencesExamples - "No," she said, flashing me a sphinx-like smile.
- His alcoholism took a toll on his enigmatic, sphinx-like charm.
- Don was highly intelligent but brooding and sphinx-like, the sort of person who gives you the impression he feels you're clueless and ought to have caught on by now.
- Their inscrutable, sphinx-like logic can prove hypnotizing, and even the brave of heart and nimble of mind may find him or herself captivated.
- Both novellas have as their focus a sphinx-like ' femme fatale ' who destroys a lover or a husband attached to her like a slave.
- He mystified observers by maintaining a sphinxlike silence - he is still studying the report, said a staffer.
- Today, Madame X presents a sphinx-like figure - beautiful, imperious, and impenetrable.
- Seldom has the capital been so spoiling for a fight, and seldom has the only person with the power to ring the opening bell been so Sphinx-like.
- That's always been an interesting, sort of sphinx-like territory for me to wander around in.
- Ask Fossett to explain his motivation and he is characteristically sphinxlike.
- Grant stares at her, sphinx-like.
- Holding back a sigh, Mrs. Richards resisted the temptation to use this, their very last interview, to probe for information about the sphinx-like woman's past.
- The other two, Zinner and the drummer Brian Chase - a bespectacled, sphinx-like jazzhead - don't say much.
- Eliot's willingness to put aside his Sphinx-like mask may have led him to say too much, but it seems churlish to hold that against him.
- Capturing this quality - inscrutable and Sphinx-like - lies at the heart of Judi Dench's performance as the late British novelist Iris Murdoch.
Synonyms enigmatic, inscrutable, secretive, sphinx-like, cloak-and-dagger, reticent, non-committal, discreet, evasive, furtive, surreptitious, covert
Definition of sphinxlike in US English: sphinxlikeadjectiveˈsfiNGksˌlīkˈsfɪŋksˌlaɪk Difficult to interpret or understand; inscrutable. Hughes will forever remain a sphinxlike enigma Example sentencesExamples - That's always been an interesting, sort of sphinx-like territory for me to wander around in.
- His alcoholism took a toll on his enigmatic, sphinx-like charm.
- The other two, Zinner and the drummer Brian Chase - a bespectacled, sphinx-like jazzhead - don't say much.
- Their inscrutable, sphinx-like logic can prove hypnotizing, and even the brave of heart and nimble of mind may find him or herself captivated.
- Holding back a sigh, Mrs. Richards resisted the temptation to use this, their very last interview, to probe for information about the sphinx-like woman's past.
- Both novellas have as their focus a sphinx-like ' femme fatale ' who destroys a lover or a husband attached to her like a slave.
- "No," she said, flashing me a sphinx-like smile.
- Today, Madame X presents a sphinx-like figure - beautiful, imperious, and impenetrable.
- Ask Fossett to explain his motivation and he is characteristically sphinxlike.
- Grant stares at her, sphinx-like.
- Eliot's willingness to put aside his Sphinx-like mask may have led him to say too much, but it seems churlish to hold that against him.
- He mystified observers by maintaining a sphinxlike silence - he is still studying the report, said a staffer.
- Seldom has the capital been so spoiling for a fight, and seldom has the only person with the power to ring the opening bell been so Sphinx-like.
- Capturing this quality - inscrutable and Sphinx-like - lies at the heart of Judi Dench's performance as the late British novelist Iris Murdoch.
- Don was highly intelligent but brooding and sphinx-like, the sort of person who gives you the impression he feels you're clueless and ought to have caught on by now.
Synonyms enigmatic, inscrutable, secretive, sphinx-like, cloak-and-dagger, reticent, non-committal, discreet, evasive, furtive, surreptitious, covert
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