Detective is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for DETECTIVE in dictionary:

NOUN:
• a policeman, usually not in uniform, or other person (private detective) who investigates cases of crime
• a person, especially a police officer, whose occupation is to investigate and solve crimes
• denoting a rank of police officer with investigative duties
• concerning crime and its investigation
• police officer or private agent who investigates crime
• One who business it is so detect criminals or discover matters of secrecy.
• a police officer who investigates crimes
• an investigator engaged or employed in obtaining information not easily available to the public
ADJECTIVE:
• Fitted for, or skilled in, detecting; employed in detecting crime or criminals; as, a detective officer.
• used in or serving for detection
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• fitted for or used in detecting something

Words related to DETECTIVE

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Words that contain DETECTIVE

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How to use DETECTIVE in a sentence

• In my first glance around the court-room the next morning, I sought first for Carmel and then for the detective Sweetwater.
• She had truly loved the man, and her shrewd heart had played the detective for his Madeline secret.
• The detective who had met him in the village practically accused him of the murder.
• As soon as they were in the street she told him her experience with the store detective and asked his advice in case she should be annoyed in the future.
• Surely Thurston, instead of himself, had played the detective.
• The detective had been at work the better part of a week, without any one in Bellemore suspecting his identity or business.
• Indeed, the man had always as little of the aspect of the conventional detective as may be imagined.
• Gibson, the noted San Francisco detective, was here, assisted by other detectives and a dozen or more local head hunters, who were after a share of the big reward.
• You will see to it, Detective Inspector, that all publicity is avoided if possible.
• The detective instinct in him was roused, and his adventurous spirit was alive for action.
• The detective, however, walked rapidly past him, and stopped short, pointing to something which was lying on the floor under the window.
• There were two windows to the library, and one was close to the side porch, the roof of which the detective had examined from above.
• As he turned around the detective dodged out of sight.
• More interested than ever, the detective, just avoiding Mrs.
• Being a detective, you have learned to keep your mouth shut.
• It was this case which was to rank him as the leading newspaper reporter, and to obtain for him the reputation of being the greatest detective in the world.
• He knew it would be the greatest close-in since a detective force had been organized.
• They returned some time during the night of the third day out, and I failed to see the detective before sunrise the next morning.
• Wilkinson set her between himself and the detective.
• Wilkinson waved the detective out of the room, and followed him.
• I was really so interested in your recital that I spoke before I thought, which a detective should never do.
• Daring and cool, he could carry a sober, innocent face which would disarm a detective and charm a deacon.
• The elder, Anisim, was in the police in the detective department and was rarely at home.
• He had had so much experience in avoiding arrest that his skill in that direction was generally more than equal to the skill, in the opposite direction, of the ordinary detective.
• I have always thought that burglary must be an exhilarating profession, second only to that of the detective who traps him.
• Blake, feeling a cross between a detective and a burglar, stole through the alley which backed the Markham residence, crossed the area, knocked softly at the kitchen door.
• Crows could summon his slow wits to determine the value of the coin which the detective had pressed into his passively expectant palm.
• Dave Fulsbee continues as the head of its detective system.
• Then she faced them and somehow walked with the woman detective toward the business office.

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