inscrutably
- a word derived from inscrutable.
Example Sentences
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She finds him impossible, brilliant, manipulative, honest, constantly scheming, always looking out for her and inscrutably devoid of impulse control, especially for a veteran diplomat.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2025
When you’re inside of the jungle, it feels endless, inscrutably immense, impossible to destroy.
From New York Times ● Nov. 8, 2022
“Rather than scrutinizing them,” Campt writes of Lawson’s photographic subjects, “they scrutinize us, and we are captured in an inscrutable and inscrutably powerful Black gaze.”
From Washington Post ● Aug. 25, 2021
All she did was nod in acknowledgment of my assessment and smile inscrutably before saying it was time to tape.
From Slate ● Oct. 26, 2018
I looked at him and shook my head as he watched me inscrutably.
From "Invisible Man" by Ralph Ellison
