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  • noun A glamorous, important spy.

Etymologies

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super- + spy

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Examples

  • He comes to the conclusion that he must be a superspy, which is far from the truth.

    HOLLYWOOD HAS TOO MUCH MONEY 2008

  • It's so frustrating to me that out of all of the cool offbeat aspects of Jessica Drew Morgan Le Fey as her arch enemy, all of the cool twisted future Night Shift members as her rogues gallery, the Wundagore connection, her time in Madipoor Bendis focuses on the most mundane, overdone, and boring aspect, namely the superspy stuff, as the center of her character.

    Comic Book Urban Legends Revealed #133 | Comics Should Be Good! @ Comic Book Resources 2007

  • "It’s so frustrating to me that out of all of the cool offbeat aspects of Jessica Drew Morgan Le Fey as her arch enemy, all of the cool twisted future Night Shift members as her rogues gallery, the Wundagore connection, her time in Madipoor Bendis focuses on the most mundane, overdone, and boring aspect, namely the superspy stuff, as the center of her character."

    Comic Book Urban Legends Revealed #133 | Comics Should Be Good! @ Comic Book Resources 2007

  • According to Coetzee, when White returned to South Africa, he joined a secret unit under so-called "superspy" security police official Craig Williamson.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1996

  • Congress (ANC) representative was planned by "section A", which was led by "superspy" Craig Williamson.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1996

  • De Kock told the Pretoria Supreme Court on Thursday that apartheid-era "superspy" Craig Williamson was involved in the death of Palme, gunned down in a Stockholm street on February 28, 1986, six months after his Socialist Democratic Party was returned to power.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1996

  • De Kock told the Pretoria Supreme Court on Thursday that apartheid-era "superspy" Craig Williamson was involved in the death of Palme, gunned down in a Stockholm street on February 28, 1986, six months after his Socialist Democratic Party was returned to power.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1996

  • The sources did not say who would be questioned, but chief prosecutor Jan Danielsson will likely want to meet Colonel Eugene de Kock, the former head of the South African secret police, his predecessor Dirk Coetzee and "superspy" Craig Williamson.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1996

  • Convicted apartheid police assassin Eugene de Kock on Thursday claimed that South African "superspy" Craig Williamson was involved in the unresolved murder of Palme, who was gunned down on a

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1996

  • Testifying at Pretoria Supreme Court on Thursday in mitigation of his sentence, de Kock said that apartheid "superspy"

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1996

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