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spy
noun as in person who secretly finds out about another's business
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agent, detective, informer, investigator, mole, operative, secret agent, secret service, undercover agent
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emissary, lookout, observer, patrol, plant, scout, sleeper, sleuth, snoop, spotter, watcher
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double agent, espionage agent, foreign agent, inside agent, intelligencer, plumber
verb as in secretly follow, watch another's actions
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case, eyeball, glimpse, meddle, notice, observe, peep, pry, reconnoiter, scout, search, shadow, sleuth, spot, stag, tail, trail, view, watch
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catch sight of, fish out, get a load of, keep under surveillance, look for, recon, set eyes on, stake out, take in, take note
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It is a spy series at its core, but you guys never really pull from the headlines.
The highly anticipated sixth season of the hilarious spy-spoof will premiere on FX at 10 pm EST on January 8, 2015.
And after the film premiered in Telluride, you were accused by Iran State Media of being a “Zionist” CIA spy.
“Once a spy, always a spy,” his friend responded; this was a common Soviet saying.
That alliance between the spy agency and the military, forged in Iraq, would forever change the way America fights wars.
It was a fact that Amy Drew often saw humor where her chum 98 could not spy anything in the least laughable.
Valence sent a woman, disguised as a beggar, to spy out the position; but Bruce saw through the dodge, and the spy confessed.
To spy out the land with a naval telescope over a mile of sea means taking a lot on trust as we learned to our cost on April 25th.
Many a spy of the Kaiser had tried to pry there and had been arrested and sentenced to a long term of imprisonment.
Nobody guessed where the King of Asturia was, and the spy had gone off on a false errand altogether.
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On this page you'll find 124 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to spy, such as: agent, detective, informer, investigator, mole, and operative.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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