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undercover man
noun as in secret agent
Strongest matches
Example Sentences
In field reports, the agents noted excitedly that their “undercover man” had begun to work among “the crooks in the oil fields and get the evidence he has promised us.”
“He could hear what was said over the telephone,” another detective wrote in his report, adding that the undercover “man will make good I think but will need some coaching.”
A year later, after Kennedy’s inauguration, Life magazine published a story on the president’s reading habits, reporting, “He has a weakness for detective stories, especially those of the British author Ian Fleming and his fictitious undercover man, James Bond.”
You’re gonna hear them roar in the specials “Cat Wars: Lion vs. Cheetah,” “Cheetah: Fatal Instinct,” “Tiger Wars,” “Cougars Undercover,” “Man v. Lion” and “Game of Lions.”
“I don’t care either. I wouldn’t believe anything those creeps said in the first place. And 1 pretty much trust you. But that’s what this undercover man said, and he’s the one who went into the mountains with the posse today. So it’s not just Jose, Charley. It’s not just him at all.”
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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