inscrutable
/ˌɪnˈskɹuːtəbl̩/ noun C2- One who or that which is inscrutable; a person, etc. that cannot be comprehended.
Plural inscrutables
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Probably some wise, inscrutable motive was to be served thereby.
How inscrutable are the ways of Providence—for what great and mysterious purpose has it pleased Heaven to abase the man once so elevated, and raise up him who was so abased?”
He is such an inscrutable fellow that I never quite know what to make of him.
Now I knew that under ordinary conditions he no longer craved for this artificial stimulus, but I was well aware that the fiend was not dead but sleeping, and I have known that the sleep was a light one and the waking near when in periods of idleness I have seen the drawn look upon Holmes’s ascetic face, and the brooding of his deep-set and inscrutable eyes.
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