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spylike

spylike adjective: resembling or characteristic of a spy.

Adjective

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

Forms of spylike

comparativemore spylike
superlativemost spylike

Origin of spylike

From spy + -like.

Questions about spylike

What does spylike mean?
Spylike means resembling or characteristic of a spy.
What part of speech is spylike?
Spylike is an adjective.

Words near spylike in the dictionary

  1. spying on
  2. spying out
  3. spyings
  4. spyism
  5. spyless
  6. spylike
  7. spymania
  8. spymaster
  9. spymasters
  10. spymistress
  11. spymistresses

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