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adverb
Cryptically  adv.  Secretly; occultly; in a manner so as to hide or obscure meaning.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Cryptically" Quotes from Famous Books



... cryptically. Then he deliberated, and sulkily submitted: "But I may not even propose to abdicate. Augustus has put himself upon sworn record as an eye-witness of my hideous death. And in consequence I might keep on abdicating from now to the crack of doom, and the only course left open ...
— The Certain Hour • James Branch Cabell

... Mahasaya was drawing to a close. During the summer of 1895 his stalwart body developed a small boil on the back. He protested against lancing; he was working out in his own flesh the evil karma of some of his disciples. Finally a few chelas became very insistent; the master replied cryptically: ...
— Autobiography of a YOGI • Paramhansa Yogananda

... cryptically. "I am not a philosopher, and I'm sorry about the epigrams. I loathe people who make use of them. They are a cheap substitution for wisdom. Do you take sugar in your tea?" It was her way of abandoning the topic, but he looked his perplexity. "I thought I'd ask now, just for the sake ...
— The Prince of Graustark • George Barr McCutcheon

... thoughts which we may not prison in speech, which words only deaden and crush into vapid sentimentalism. Life, held in a great unutterable calm, seemed to lie out there in the radiant, vague distance, asleep and smiling cryptically ...
— Starr, of the Desert • B. M Bower



Words linked to "Cryptically" :   mysteriously, enigmatically, cryptic



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