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How to pronounce sleuth in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms snoop, spy, stag
Type of monitor, supervise
Derivation sleuthing
Type Words
Synonyms sleuthhound
Type of detective

Examples of sleuth

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Using Eat This, Not That reminds us that even a nutrition sleuth can get fooled.
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The author makes a return visit to his genteel Edinburgh sleuth Isabel Dalhousie.
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I'm like a rose sleuth with a bag and a pair of secateurs to see what I can find.
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You sleuth by moving around to talk to people, gather evidence and look for clues.
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Just getting here requires the uninitiated to become part adventurer, part sleuth.
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He's just the spook sleuth to help a comely se-duck-tress who needs some exorcise.
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The sleuth, scruffy and stubbly, with a whip in one hand and a sword in the other.
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Teens join super sleuth Nancy Drew for a mystery involving an orphaned Orca whale.
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Hope plays a radio sleuth who ends up in a haunted house on an island with Goddard.
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More examples
  • A detective who follows a trail
  • Spy: watch, observe, or inquire secretly
  • (sleuthing) detection: a police investigation to determine the perpetrator; "detection is hard on the feet"
  • Sleuth is the 1972 film adaptation of the Tony Award-winning play of the same title by British playwright Anthony Shaffer. The screenplay was adapted by Shaffer. Directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz, the film stars Laurence Olivier and Michael Caine.
  • Sleuth is a text-based "whodunit" computer-game created by Eric N. Miller of Norland Software. It was first released in 1983. When the game starts, a murder has just been committed. The object of the game is to solve the murder mystery by examining the house and talking to its occupants. ...
  • The Mickey Mouse Universe (not an official term used by The Walt Disney Company) is the setting where Mickey Mouse and his supporting cast live.
  • Sleuth is a 1970 play written by Anthony Shaffer. The play is set in the Wiltshire, England manor house of Andrew Wyke, an immensely successful mystery writer. His home reflects Wyke's obsession with the inventions and deceptions of fiction and his fascination with games and game-playing. ...
  • Sleuth is a digital cable television network with programming dedicated to the crime and mystery genres. It is owned and operated by NBC Universal and is the fourth latest addition to their line up of digital cable TV channels (after The Weather Channel, Oxygen and Chiller). ...
  • The Sleuth is a 1925 silent comedy film starring Stan Laurel.