inscrutable
Example Sentences
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To ordinary churchgoers, the God of medieval imagination appeared distant and inscrutable.
My expression is inscrutable but penetrating, hard but not brittle.
From Literature
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Mr. Macmillan doesn’t lose sight of the central truths about clinical depression: that the causes are often inscrutable, its persistence can be intractable, and temporary relief often leads only to recurrence.
The highly anticipated release of the Epstein documents was supposed to shine sunlight on an inscrutable criminal saga and provide something like a final accounting.
Customers complain of language barriers and agents with inscrutable accents.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.