policier

American  

[paw-lee-syay] / pɔ liˈsjeɪ /

noun

• policiers
  plural

1. French. a novel or film featuring detectives, crime, or the like.

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Other Word Forms

Noun Inflected Forms

• policiers
  plural

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Example Sentences

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Donnie Wahlberg stars in a spinoff of the perennial policier “Blue Bloods.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 23, 2025

So it is with “Investigation,” a hard-edged policier that satirizes itself with Ennio Morricone’s cartoonish score and Gian Maria Volonté’s preening performance as the sociopathic police officer, referred to only as the Inspector.

From New York Times ● May 14, 2020

France’s Arnaud Desplechin with “Oh Mercy!,” a policier set, as many of his recent films have been, in his birthplace of Roubaix;

From Los Angeles Times ● May 13, 2019

As a Harry Brandt novel, “The Whites” is more of a policier than Price’s previous fiction—more plot-driven and less deeply engaged by the anthropology of its urban communities.

From The New Yorker ● Feb. 9, 2015

“This,” said Dr. Constantine, “is more wildly improbable than any roman policier I have ever read.”

From "Murder on the Orient Express" by Agatha Christie

Alert viewers may also recognize a rough-hewn Lino Ventura — already a fixture in policiers — as one of Maigret’s men.

From New York Times ● Oct. 18, 2017

The French have a long history of these kinds of detail-oriented policiers: a genre they pretty much invented.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 12, 2016

The film climaxes, as all policiers apparently must, with a car chase, but it is nowhere near as interesting as the successful off-casting of nice Hal Holbrook as a heavy.

From Time Magazine Archive

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