cloak-and-dagger

How To Use cloak-and-dagger In A Sentence

• Then, it was all murderous cloak-and-dagger stuff conducted far from the light of day, with scant regard for the law or human rights.
• cloak-and-dagger activities behind enemy lines
• Donovan much later would call him “a real cloak-and-dagger boy.” Wild Bill Donovan
• WikiLeaks suspect's trial near super-secure NSA 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 public - a reputation that's only party true. The Seattle Times
• A recent case with facts that read like a cloak-and-dagger novel raises serious questions about the psychotherapist-patient privilege.
• But don't think there's any cloak-and-dagger spying going on.
• Because the networks handle the exit polls in such a cloak-and-dagger fashion, not every newscaster who talks about them understands their limitations.
• Some four decades back, he had been the kind of wide-eyed teenager who thought one could volunteer for the KGB, who had believed the cloak-and-dagger stories, only to find in the organs he had romanticized an atavistic bureaucracy staffed by anti-Semites, paper pushers, careerists, and more than a few sadists. The Return
• In a bit of cloak-and-dagger grandiosity, the firms dubbed their collaboration Team Themis, after a titan of Greek mythology who embodied natural law.
• This government is better about it than most, but it's had its fair share of power-hungry cloak-and-dagger wonks.