What is "cryptically"

Usage examples of "cryptically".

Conan cryptically, slit-eyed ebony giants, the torch striking highlights from their glossy skin.

Furtive, shambling creatures stared cryptically in my direction, and more normal faces eyed me coldly and curiously.

And in the end I went, wet, hatless, and dazed in the morning light, and entered that awful door in Benefit Street which I had left ajar, and which still swung cryptically in full sight of the early householders to whom I dared not speak.

And it was amid these ancient, cryptically brooding hills that he had ultimately vanished.

Sergeant Major Parant smiled cryptically and settled farther back in his chair.

The chrysalis, however cryptically evil, was these sickly creatures summoned back to the caves and pipes a dripping sewage, over the landfill.

It was a work-in-progress, blocks of as-yet-unwritten code replaced with cryptically labeled placeholders, but the basic intent was clear enough.

Material relating to them has, on the whole, been scanted by annalists, since they were heroes too disreputable for classic myth, too cryptically independent ever to let themselves be tied to a folk, too shifty and improbable in their adventurings to please the historian, too often involved with a riffraff of dubious demons, unfrocked sorcerers, and discredited deities—a veritable underworld of the supernatural.

Material relating to them has, on the whole, been scanted by annalists, since they were heroes too disreputable for classic myth, too cryptically independent ever to let themselves be tied to a folk, too shifty and improbable in their adventurings to please the historian, too often involved with a riffraff of dubious demons, unfrocked sorcerers, and discredited deities -- a veritable underworld of the supernatural.

They'd only just been escorted in when I went to collect you," he said cryptically as he thumbed the catch on his door and motioned for Varian and Kai to precede him.

At one point, she did inquire of the man seated on her other side, a lesser Yatol, of the arrival of Abbot Olin, but he only replied cryptically that the Jacintha garrison was stronger than ever before, and that all of Behren would soon enough be put back in order.

Her handsome husband perplexed the missionaries by remarking cryptically, "It's not surprising.

Keller heard it buzz, he answered it cryptically before it could buzz again, won-dering what the hell else somebody in Tokyo was going to announce was wrong with the crypto machines, the radio or radio-teletype circuits, or all three, what would have to be fixed, how much would have to be retransmitted.