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sphinxlike

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Definitions

  1. Like a sphinx, or like that of a sphinx, especially, not showing passion or emotion; inscrutable.

Word origin

From sphinx + -like.

Used in a sentence

  • they get together in the dry riverbed. He writhes over her for a minute or two as she sits sphinxlike, dignified, head straight in the air.
  • Mrs. Mallowe smiled in a superior and Sphinx-like fashion.
  • “What we need to avoid at the end is a headline that says ‘Russia Won, America Lost.’” A sphinxlike response. Or perhaps a nonresponse.

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