sleuth in English

noun

1

a detective.

The sleuth is usually an amateur or a consulting detective.

synonyms: (private) detective, (private) investigator, private eye, snoop, shamus, gumshoe, (private) dick, PI

verb

1

carry out a search or investigation in the manner of a detective.

scientists began their genetic sleuthing for honey mushrooms four years ago

noun

• (private) detective, (private) investigator, private eye, snoop, shamus, gumshoe, (private) dick, PI
• sleuthhound

verb

• spy, stag, snoop

Use "sleuth" in a sentence

1. Read! "The Detroit News". Uncle George is a super sleuth!

2. I answered yes, and he became an unrelenting sleuth.

3. At the last moment, however, the moustachioed TV sleuth has been saved.

4. Social sleuth: Danah Boyd is uncovering the unexpected effects of networking sites.

5. Your Honour, I have a friend who's an amateur sleuth.

6. Do you use the Xenu Link Sleuth for anything else besides finding broken links?

7. Whodunit: Doyle created original super-sleuth Sherlock Holmes, but he also did some crime-fighting himself.

8. Problem Sleuth [edit edit source] You open your BATTLE MENU and select "Aggress"

9. One mystery store, Sleuth, at 78th and Amsterdam and a children's bookstore, Shop Around The Corner.

10. With a little old lady as the sleuth, and no car chases unless they're done very slowly.

11. A couch sleuth who's fascinated by CSI-type shows, on the other hand, 26 is analytical and thoughtful.

12. That being said, the most obvious application of Xenu Link Sleuth is to use it to find broken links.

13. 12 Antic sleuth work and a few serendipitous turns reward Garson with the leads necessary to begin her voyage.

14. Autopsy® is a digital forensics platform and graphical interface to The Sleuth Kit® and other digital forensics tools

15. In a bowler hat and smoking jacket to portray the world - famous sleuth, Downey (see photo) is reminiscent of another British icon - Charlie Chaplin.

16. It is proved that SLEUTH Model algorithm is simple and intuitive which can be suitable for the dynamic simulation of urban expansion.

17. Another excellent tool I like using for hunting down broken links in my websites is Xenu Link Sleuth. You can download it here.

18. Moreover, this study had some values for assisting to make urban and land use planning, using SLEUTH model, to guide the sustainable development of cities in Yinchuan Plain.

19. A delightful and respectful tribute to Windsor’s Canniest – and most discreet – amateur sleuth.” -- Woman&Home, Book of the Month selection (UK) About the Author

20. Agatha Christie's fictional sleuth is often dismissed as scatterbrained, but she is actually a shrewd judge of character and harbors deep knowledge of the dark side of human nature.

21. The dashing Captain Hugh "Bullshot" Crummond - WWI ace fighter pilot, Olympic athlete, racing driver, part-time sleuth and all round spiffing chap - must save the world from the dastardly Count

22. Barbara Cleverly, bestselling author of the Joe Sandilands series, introduces an ingenious new sleuth who navigates 1920s Cambridge, a European intellectual capital on the cusp of dramatic change

23. Whodunit: The 21st century's heir apparent to Sherlock Holmes' deductive throne, Batman was created in 1939 by artist Bob Kane and writer Bill Finger, who partially based him on Doyle's sleuth.

24. Pastry chef and amateur sleuth Juliet Capshaw finds herself on thin ice as she attempts to solve her latest case of small-town murder in Ellie Alexander's Chilled to the Cone: A Bakeshop Mystery

25. To do so: Download the Autopsy ZIP file Linux will need The Sleuth Kit Java .deb Debian package Follow the instructions to install other dependencies 3 rd Party Modules

26. Kate Jasper, Marin County, California's own, organically grown, amateur sleuth is back in this second mystery in the series. ("Kate is quick and clever and fun to read about."

27. In the episode, amateur sleuth Jessica Fletcher (Angela Lansbury) investigates the murder of a writer for Buds, a fictional television series about the daily lives of a group of city friends.

28. (The Bombinating Beast is thought to be the Great Unknown of ASOUE.) The Snicket Sleuth Tumblr page explained why they didn't think this theory was valid and Handler himself pretty much confirmed

29. SLEUTH model is a kind of CA, it is composed by four growth rules and five coefficients, in conjunction with the excluded layer and the slope layer, it can successfully model the urbanization.

30. 30 SLEUTH model is a kind of CA, it is composed by four growth rules and five coefficients, in conjunction with the excluded layer and the slope layer, it can successfully model the urbanization.

31. The dashing Captain Hugh "Bullshot" Crummond (Alan Shearman) - World War I ace fighter pilot, Olympic athlete, racing driver, part-time sleuth, and all round spiffing chap - must save the world from the dastardly Count Otto van Bruno (Ronald E

32. “[A] sleuth with a Bushelful of entertaining problems.”—Claudia Bishop, bestselling author of the Hemlock Falls Mysteries “Connolly’s writing style brings the reader into the sights, scents, and sounds of a small town.”—Open Book Society “An example of everything that is right with the cozy mystery.”—Lesa’s Book Critiques