Spy on commonly refers to secretly observing or monitoring someone or something. The opposite of spy on is to openly or honestly observe or monitor. Antonyms for spy on include observe, watch, monitor, follow openly, supervise, inspect, oversee and scrutinize openly. Observing openly means to watch openly and honestly without hiding. Monitoring can be a regular checkup or watch over someone or something. Following openly is pursuing and keeping an eye on someone without any hidden intent. Supervising involves directing or guiding someone while inspecting means to examine something with care. Overseen means to oversee and manage someone or something while scrutinizing openly means to examine critically.

What are the antonyms for Spy on?

• v.

  • shadow
  • brighten
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  • ignore
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  • lighten
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  • run away
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Famous quotes with Spy on

• What I'm getting at is, you know, if we really want to get serious about helping all the people living in the street and getting people jobs, we could just hire half the people in the country to spy on the other half.

  Jello Biafra
• The great advantage of being a writer is that you can spy on people. You're there, listening to every word, but part of you is observing. Everything is useful to a writer, you see - every scrap, even the longest and most boring of luncheon parties.

  Graham Greene
• A legal or religious ceremony by which two persons of the opposite sex solemnly agree to harass and spy on each other... until death do them join.

  Elbert Hubbard
• Thanks to technology, what almost anybody can do has been multiplied a thousandfold, and our moral understanding about what we ought to do hasn't kept pace. … You have a test-tube baby or take a morning-after pill to keep from having a baby; you satisfy your sexual urges in the privacy of your room by downloading Internet pornography, and you keep your favorite music for free instead of buying it; you keep your money in secret offshore bank accounts and purchase stock in cigarette companies that are exploiting impoverished Third World countries; and you lay minefields, smuggle nuclear weapons in suitcases, make nerve gas, and drop "smart bombs" with pinpoint accuracy. Also, you arrange to have a hundred dollars a month automatically sent from your bank account to provide education for ten girls in an Islamic country who otherwise would not learn to read and write, or to benefit a hundred malnourished people, or provide medical care for AIDS sufferers in Africa. You use the Internet to organize citizen monitoring of environmental hazards, or to check the honesty and performance of government officials — or to spy on your neighbors. Now, what ought we to do?

  Daniel Dennett
• I've been haunting bookshops and hiding behind display signs of TV chefs (Nigella is excellent to hide behind as she has a huge arse) as I spy on the short fiction section and see if anyone's tempted by my sweet bait. I've also been counting how many copies of the book are left in shops, and I've been covering other “upcoming” authors’ books with mine.

  Kevin Barry

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