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164 months ago

Barbara Cochran (a guest user) asked this question:

Language pair:

Portuguese > English

Subject:

Other

Level of diffculty:

Easy / medium

Word or term in question:

sorriu esfíngicamente

Context:

O homen do fato cinzento cruzou-se em silêncio com os dois amigos e, lançando uma olhadela

Keywords:

...à sombra de Tiago, sorriu esfíngicamente e prosseguiu o seu caminho...Tiago had sold his shadow, which he now has back, to the man in the gray suit.

 

 

The answer of airmailrpl  See profile was rated best

sphinxlike..enigmatically

My comment:

sphinxlike
Main Entry:
enigmatic/enigmatical
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: mysterious
Synonyms: Delphian, Sibylline, ambiguous, cryptic, dark, doubtful, equivocal, incomprehensible, indecipherable, inexplicable, inscrutable, obscure, occult, oracular, perplexing, puzzling, recondite, secret, sphinxlike , stickling, stumping, teasing, uncertain, unfathomable, unintelligible

My references:

enigmatically - The Free Dictionary
www.thefreedictionary.com/enigmatically
en·ig·mat·ic ( n g-m t k) or en·ig·mat·i·cal (- -k l). adj. Of or resembling an enigma; puzzling: a professor's enigmatic grading system. See Synonyms at ambiguou