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Sleuthing   /slˈuθɪŋ/   Listen
Sleuthing

noun
1.
A police investigation to determine the perpetrator.  Synonyms: detecting, detection, detective work.





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"Sleuthing" Quotes from Famous Books



... a kind of genius hound. He scurries sleuthing around the town ever on the scent of something queer and caviar. He is well trained and never kills what he catches himself; he takes it to Hermione; and after Hermione has tired of it I am at liberty to do what I please ...
— Hermione and Her Little Group of Serious Thinkers • Don Marquis
... it," assented Gladwin. "So I've come home to investigate—sleuthing expedition, you might say. Didn't want him to hear I was coming and climb out. Now you've got the answer to the gumshoe riddle. My plan is to lie low and have you look him up. Nothing else on foot, Whitney? Haven't gone into mustard or ...
— Officer 666 • Barton W. Currie


Words linked to "Sleuthing" :   sleuth, police work, detective work, detecting, police investigation, detection


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