Usually means: Mysteriously silent and enigmatically uncommunicative.
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  1. sphinxlike: Merriam-Webster
  2. sphinxlike: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. sphinxlike: Collins English Dictionary
  4. sphinxlike: Wordnik
  5. sphinxlike: Wiktionary
  6. sphinxlike: TheFreeDictionary.com

(Note: See sphinx as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (sphinxlike)

adjective:  Like a sphinx, or like that of a sphinx. Especially, not showing emotion
adjective:  Mysterious; scheming; having a deceptive outward appearance

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