spylike
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spylike (comparative more spylike, superlative most spylike)
- Resembling or characteristic of a spy.
- 1966, Mary Colum, Life and the dream:
- […] 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.