ferret

Ferret is a carefully chosen comparison, implying diligence but absolutely no imagination.

What I saw was a careful and ingenious reporter ferret out a fraud with care.

That alone provides a powerful incentive for civil society to try to ferret out the numbers.

They were used to ferret rebel fighters out of their strongholds.

Reich, the former American diplomat, says he thinks Morales might just be crazy enough to ferret Snowden to La Paz.

A soldier is not a conjurer that he should be handed over a fully laden ship and told to ferret out a fuse key.

Where you like; there must be two or three remaining in the neighborhood, so ferret them out and bring them here.

Oh, if he'd a notion I was within twenty miles of him, he'd ferret me out to pay off old grudges.

I stuck my hand down, and it was given a vicious bite by a white, pink-eyed ferret Paul was carrying there.

He was endeavoring to pierce the darkness with his ferret eyes, when the chimes of a neighboring church clock struck twelve.