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  • adjective slang, nonstandard sleuthlike; of or in the manner of a sleuth.

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Examples

  • And thanks to one sleuthy physicist, we know a good deal more about it.

    John Lundberg: Physicist Decodes a Walt Whitman Poem 2010

  • And thanks to one sleuthy physicist, we know a good deal more about it.

    John Lundberg: Physicist Decodes a Walt Whitman Poem 2010

  • The details of the "cases" only matter to the extent that they give our heroine Agnes Quill a reason to venture forth into the atmospheric city of Legerdemain and a mystery to be sleuthy about.

    Archive 2009-04-26 2009

  • First, that's not her "origin story"; without trivializing it, her sleuthy tendencies and expertise don't derive from that experience at all.

    Archive 2009-03-29 2009

  • You know, it's odd that the same pedantic sleuthy wanks who are still obsessing about Barack Obama's birth certificate and whining tediously on about how he's not constitutionally allowed to be president never had much to say about this:

    Constitutional kerners are go! CC 2009

  • Well, sleuthy reporters discovered that Madonna may have borrowed heavily from Pulitzer Prize winning poet Anne Sexton.

    John Lundberg: Madonna's 'Stolen' Love Poem 2009

  • Even on the assumption that ghosts may be involved, the characters attempt in classic amateur-sleuthy style to solve the original puzzle of the grandmother's death as the key to solving the series of murders taking place around them.

    PHANTOM OF THE 13th FLOOR by Marilyn Ross (Popular Library 1975) 2006

  • Even on the assumption that ghosts may be involved, the characters attempt in classic amateur-sleuthy style to solve the original puzzle of the grandmother's death as the key to solving the series of murders taking place around them.

    Archive 2006-11-12 2006

  • Or is my agent really the sleuthy one, playing off of the expectation that others might believe in this old wives' tale like not swimming after you eat and actually submitting at a fabulous time, laughing at the stupidity of others while savoring her SASE-paid for, gin-spiced Frappuccino?

    Are You Sure You Know What You're Doing? Miss Snark 2005

  • He did not know just who would be shadowing him, but Peter wanted to be sleuthy.

    100\%: the Story of a Patriot Upton Sinclair 1923

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