Definition of "sphinxlike" []

• Like a sphinx, or like that of a sphinx. (adjective)
• Mysterious; scheming; having a deceptive outward appearance (adjective)

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• "The girl said nothing . . . just kept staring at him with a small, sphinxlike grin."
• "Kennedy stood sphinxlike, refusing to yield her position."
• "A woman in a striped robe stands at the table, her back hunched in stony reverie; Bonnard renders her monumental, sphinxlike."