Crossword-Solution: DETECTIVE
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Detective | a. | Fitted for, or skilled in, detecting; employed in detecting crime or criminals; as, a detective officer. |
| Detective | n. | One who business it is so detect criminals or discover matters of secrecy. |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
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Sentences with DETECTIVE (5)
That is to say, he “found a clew.” But you can’t hang a “clew” for murder, and so after that detective had got through and gone home, Tom felt just as insecure as he was before.
This was no case for the modern detective of civilization, yet several of these threw themselves into the search—the bones of some are already bleaching beneath the African sun upon the silent sands of the Sahara.
There was the clatter of running feet upon the pavement, and two policemen in uniform, with one plain-clothes detective, rushed through the front entrance and into the room.
For the future, perhaps you will be so obliging as to do your detective business along with me.” He took me by the arm, and walked me away with him along the road by which he had come.
Extremely pretty,—really, when you know her, she is wonderfully pretty,—intelligent, determined, ambitious, unscrupulous, capable of looking at a man strangled without changing color, she is upon my honor, extremely entertaining.” “It’s a fine list of attractions,” said Newman; “they would serve as a police-detective’s description of a favorite criminal.
Quotes with DETECTIVE (3)
Being a detective isn't all about torture and murder and monsters. Sometimes it gets truly unpleasant... The fate of the world may depend on whether or not you can bring yourself to visit your relatives.
He knows that after him everything will continue on much as before, except that there will be a minuscule absence, a barely detective gap in the so-called grand scheme, one unit fewer now. Or not even that, not even an empty space where he once was, for all will rush immediately to fill that vacuum. Pft. Gone. Recollections of him will remain in the minds of others for a while, but presently those others too will die and his few relics with them. And then all will be dark.
The average novel invariably reads like a detective's report. It is drab and tedious because it is never objective.
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Appears in: CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, NYT, The Atlantic, USA TODAY, WSJ.
Used 13 times in crossword archives (1951–2021).