cloak-and-dagger
Example Sentences
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This time, however, President Santiago Peña Palacios will save Lai’s team the trouble of logistical cloak-and-dagger.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 3, 2026
It’s a pale substitute for the delicious tension inherent to deadly cloak-and-dagger exploits.
From Salon • Apr. 22, 2025
It involved allegations of financial impropriety at the top of the Vatican, cloak-and-dagger activity of the kind that has often characterised the secretive world of the Holy See.
From BBC • Dec. 16, 2023
The first tenet is the reason my sister-in-law was being so cloak-and-dagger; she was trying to respect the taboo against spreading bad news.
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 24, 2023
Now he put his cloak-and-dagger skills to work at the Three Lions, where a state-of-the-art security system and the hotel’s unique triangular shape allowed him to keep a constant eye on anyone approaching the building.
From "City Spies" by James Ponti
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