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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



... isn't I'll make it so," answered Madge, cryptically, as she went over to her room. Here, from beneath the poor little iron bed, she dragged out a small trunk and began her packing. For obvious reasons this did not take very long. It was a scanty trousseau the bride was taking with her ...
— The Peace of Roaring River • George van Schaick

... Bocock cared to join the expedition; and Valerie, cryptically, for her daughter's understanding, said: "Do you really want more scenery, Sir Basil? You and Imogen had much better keep us company here. We ...
— A Fountain Sealed • Anne Douglas Sedgwick

... difference! You see?" That was the befuddled manner in which Mary Virginia very often explained things. If God was good to you, you got a little glimmer of what she meant and was trying to tell you. Mary Virginia often talked as the alchemists used to write—cryptically, abstrusely, as if to hide the golden truth ...
— Slippy McGee, Sometimes Known as the Butterfly Man • Marie Conway Oemler

... as she closed thus cryptically her tables of praises. Brilliana uplifted her hands in ...
— The Lady of Loyalty House - A Novel • Justin Huntly McCarthy

... at them cryptically. Dal shook his head. "Doesn't give us much to go on, that's certain. Even the location could be wrong if the signal came in on an odd frequency or from a long distance. Let's beam back at the same direction and intensity ...
— Star Surgeon • Alan Nourse

... what a man's got in his head and not so much what he's got on it that makes him strong," he explained, still more or less cryptically. ...
— West Wind Drift • George Barr McCutcheon

... right, then?" Mr. Watling inquired cryptically, with a smile. The other made a barely perceptible inclination of the head and departed. Mr. Watling looked at me. "He's one of the best men we have on the bench to-day," he added. There was a trace ...
— The Crossing • Winston Churchill

... so cryptically cynical, received a little laugh from Imogen, a slight opening of Jack Cardigan's mouth, and a creak ...
— Forsyte Saga • John Galsworthy

... doubt about inquisitiveness being your besetting sin," Juve replied cryptically. "Well, we've got a quarter of an hour's drive in front of us. But you're not going to prison; I'm going to ...
— Fantomas • Pierre Souvestre

... when she was alone. "If she were a couple of years older there couldn't be any objection. Well, for the lan's sakes!" Her face broke into a broad grin. "There isn't any reason why we should—nobody need ever know," she murmured cryptically. ...
— Mary Rose of Mifflin • Frances R. Sterrett

... have prenty trouble Menike whaleman. He send for French admiral help him. Captiane Halley come with sailor. Frenchman he never go 'way." Again his teeth gleamed in a smile. "My brother of grandfather have gun long time in hills," he added cryptically. ...
— White Shadows in the South Seas • Frederick O'Brien

... Perrie and Dexter were volunteers for what Dr. Aloys Ormond referred to cryptically as "very advanced experimentation." The group at large had not been told the exact nature of these experiments, but the implication was that they were mental exercises of such power that Dr. Al did not wish other advanced students to try them, until the brave pioneer work being ...
— Ham Sandwich • James H. Schmitz



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