gray man
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.43 in modern English
13
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
An average, forgettable man who does not draw attention or stand out in a crowd.
Example Sentences
- "He was said to be a perfect match for his own description of the ideal intelligence officer, "the traditional gray man, so inconspicuous that he can never catch a waiter's eye in a restaurant.""
- "2000, "Cassidy's Run: The Secret Spy War Over Nerve Gas", David Wise, pg.13-3, →ISBN But perhaps that is why he was chosen for his role — a gray man who blended almost invisibly into the background."
- ""Gray man" is an espionage term describing the "perfect" covert operator."
- "“Your goal is to be the gray man,” says Clinton Emerson, a former Navy SEAL and trainer for the CIA and NSA who now works at the special-ops site SOFREP."
- "The Gray Man is in between. He is neither blinged-out nor loud, but also not a head-down, foot-shuffling sheep."
- "A gray man in a gray suit slips through the shadows in a black-and-white world carrying encrypted secrets."
Etymology
Inflected Forms
gray men (plural)
grey man (alternative)
Phrases
Frequently Paired Words
Synonyms
little gray man
little grey man