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cryptic, cryptical
Zoology (of the coloration of animals) tending to conceal by disguising or camouflaging the shape


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I don't like cats as is women," was Alec's cryptic reply.
Hence the name, which has no cryptic significance, but only fact.
The father and daughter would have been quite content, apparently, to eat their dinner in silence, or with a few cryptic remarks expressed in a shorthand which could not be understood by the servants.
 
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