All 4 Uses of
conspire
in
Bleak House
- To which Mr. Weevle returns, "William, I should have thought it would have been a lesson to YOU never to conspire any more as long as you lived."†
Chpt 31-33
- To which Mr. Guppy says, "Who's conspiring?"†
Chpt 31-33 *
- Finding his friend in this morose and material condition, Mr. Guppy only expresses the finer feelings of his soul through the tone of injury in which he recommences, "Tony, when I say there is a point on which we must come to an understanding pretty soon, I say so quite apart from any kind of conspiring, however innocent.†
Chpt 31-33
- Now I won't allude to conspiring to extort money or anything of that sort, because we are men and women of the world here, and our object is to make things pleasant.†
Chpt 52-54
Definition:
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(conspire) secretly plan together to do something -- especially something illegal or harmful
or:
of events and circumstances: seemingly cooperate to achieve something