spylike

adj

spylike

adj

Etymology From spy + -like.

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:

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