ADJECTIVE
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conducted with or marked by hidden aims or methods
hole-and-corner intrigue
clandestine intelligence operations
cloak-and-dagger activities behind enemy lines
secret sales of arms
a secret agent
an undercover investigation
surreptitious mobilization of troops
secret missions
underground resistance
How To Use cloak-and-dagger In A Sentence
- By their very nature, underworld deals are negotiated and sealed in cloak-and-dagger secrecy.
- The military intelligence complex an hour outside Washington where the WikiLeaks case goes to court this week is known as a cloak-and-dagger sanctum off-limits to the rest of the world. ABC News: Top Stories
- Hughes's dramatic arrival at the local airport seemed symbolic of the cloak-and-dagger air surrounding the US skaters.
- He engaged in cloak-and-dagger operations for Louis XIII and then for Louis XIV, the Sun King, who appointed him to lead the musketeers in 1658. D'Artagnan Buried in The Netherlands?
- The Windows drive is patched with whatever the MS auto-update cloak-and-dagger process does to it.
- Exactly how cloak-and-dagger are the secret prisons?
- The last part of the story read like something straight out of Hitchcock, with all the cloak-and-dagger characters and international rendezvous of a noir thriller. A Covert Affair
- He engaged in cloak-and-dagger operations for Louis XIII and then for Louis XIV, the Sun King, who appointed him to lead the musketeers in 1658. D'Artagnan Buried in The Netherlands?
- It makes all this cloak-and-dagger stuff worthwhile.
- Hollywood was always ready to bankroll cloak-and-dagger movies that played on those suspicions. O: A Presidential Novel
