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sleuthhound
[ slooth-hound ]
noun
- a bloodhound.
- a detective.
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Word History and Origins
Origin of sleuthhound1
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Example Sentences
This explains why the dog has sometimes been called a sleuthhound; that is, a dog set upon a sleuth, or trail.
Its speciality—or, if you like, its oddity—was this merciless mercy; the unrelenting sleuthhound who seeks to save and not slay.
From that instant, all pretenses were abandoned, Robert was a sleuthhound on a keen scent.
Enoch Standring had something of the sleuthhound in his nature.
It was the first messenger from Will Leatherbarrow, who hung like a sleuthhound on the trail.
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