Bad and Cryptic

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Bad adjective - Falling short of a standard.

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Cryptic and bad are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Cryptic" instead an adjective "Bad".

Nearby Words: badly, badness

Cryptic adjective - Being beyond one's powers to know, understand, or explain.

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Bad and cryptic are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Bad" instead an adjective "Cryptic".

Polly Wants a Microphone: Huginn and Muninn, Odin's ravens, are full-fledged Talking Animals who spend their appearances in roughly equal parts giving cryptic advice and making bad jokes.

Source: Comic Book / Valhalla
He just became distant and cryptic, asking them to put insane amounts of trust in him without giving explanation as to what he was doing, and actually admitting to working with the bad guys to boot.

Source: Came Back Wrong
The German military had a bad habit of using code names for projects or systems which were superficially cryptic but actually revealed the nature of the concept they were supposed to disguise.

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