Cloak-and-dagger
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech adjective
Quick meaning: Cloak-and-dagger is an adjective meaning Marked by menacing furtive secrecy, often with a melodramatic tint or espionage involved.
Meaning
Marked by menacing furtive secrecy, often with a melodramatic tint or espionage involved.
Example Sentences
Israel wages cloak-and-dagger war on Iran [headline]
Two years after ordering the mass internment of German refugees at the start of the second world war, the British government put a small, elite group of them in military uniforms and sent them on a secret cloak-and-dagger mission to occupied Dieppe to snatch an Enigma coding machine from under the Nazis’ noses.
Synonyms for cloak-and-dagger
Depending on context, synonyms include covert, clandestine, undercover, abstruse, catlike, backroom.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include undercover, clandestine, hole-and-corner, covert, surreptitious, secret.
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