scrutable
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“Mitch McConnell is the most scrutable leader; he’s not a bluffer,” said Scott Jennings, a former McConnell aide and political strategist in Kentucky.
From New York Times ● Sep. 15, 2021
Two months out from a World Cup hosted by an aspirant rogue state, what is on the mind of deeply scrutable Fifa president Gianni Infantino?
From The Guardian ● Apr. 18, 2018
The mood was more intense up the street at Duffy’s Irish Pub, home of the newly coined “Covfefe Cocktail,” named after one of the president’s less scrutable tweets.
From Washington Post ● Jun. 8, 2017
In one version of the ad, a harsh key light cuts diagonally across Damon’s brow and cheekbone, one of the few spots in which the details of his body are scrutable.
From Salon ● Jul. 29, 2016
We turned again toward the Board, and another course altogether of demonstrations passed over the surface of it, and was made scrutable to our perceptions.
From The Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine, May 1844 Volume 23, Number 5 by Lewis Gaylord Clark
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