sleuthhound
Americannoun
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a bloodhound.
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a detective.
noun
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a dog trained to track people, esp a bloodhound
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an informal word for detective
Etymology
Origin of sleuthhound
1325–75; Middle English sloth track, trail (< Old Norse slōth ) + hound 1
Example Sentences
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President Conant was awarded an honorary Doctor of Civil Laws by Oxford University with the citation: "a sleuthhound in pursuit of atoms, a champion of free inquiry and free speech."
From Time Magazine Archive
In literature and in the popular imagination, the all-seeing private eye—the gumshoe, the cinder dick, the sleuthhound, the shadow—displaced the crusading sheriff as the archetype of rough justice.
From "Killers of the Flower Moon" by David Grann
But the sleuthhound instinct of the Johnstone held good.
From The Men of the Moss-Hags Being a history of adventure taken from the papers of William Gordon of Earlstoun in Galloway by Crockett, S. R. (Samuel Rutherford)
"The instinct of the sleuthhound," he said to himself, "is all very well, but why on earth haven't I told Furley about the car?"
From The Devil's Paw by Oppenheim, E. Phillips (Edward Phillips)
Its speciality—or, if you like, its oddity—was this merciless mercy; the unrelenting sleuthhound who seeks to save and not slay.
From A Miscellany of Men by Chesterton, G. K. (Gilbert Keith)
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