spylike

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adjective

Resembling or characteristic of a spy.

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Meanings

adjectivespylike (comparative more spylike, superlative most spylike)

comparative more spylike · superlative most spylike

  1. Resembling or characteristic of a spy.

    […] he looked an officer and a gentleman, though he had been engaged so long in plots, counterplots, intrigues, and conspiracies that a sort of spylike expression had come into his face.

    1966, Mary Colum, Life and the dream

Origin

From spy + -like.

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Rhymes & wordplay

Anagrams

peskily
Cite this entry
APA

spylike. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/spylike

MLA

“spylike.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/spylike. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “spylike,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/spylike.

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