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a secret agreement or plot — especially to do something illegal or harmful- She discovered a conspiracy to overthrow the government.
conspiracy = a secret agreement or plot
- She is inclined to believe conspiracy theories.
- They are puppets and agents of an international conspiracy which has turned Cuba against your friends and neighbors in the Americas—John F. Kennedy -- Cuban Missle Crisis Speech
- Louisa thought that McDonald's was a giant conspiracy against the health of all Americans.Rebecca Stead -- When You Reach Me
- DANFORTH: Now, woman, you surely see it profit nothin' to keep this conspiracy any further.Arthur Miller -- The Crucible
- Silently, wallowing in the pleasures of conspiracy, we take the bead purse from its secret place and spill its contents on the scrap quilt.Truman Capote -- A Christmas Memory
- To Danforth: Without confidences there could be no conspiracy, Your Honor!Arthur Miller -- The Crucible
- Society, as we have seen, is one vast conspiracy for carving one into the kind of statue it likes, and then placing it in the most convenient niche it has.Randolph Silliman Bourne -- Youth and Life
- In a democracy the majority of citizens is capable of exercising the most cruel oppressions upon the minority... those who are subjected to wrong under multitudes are deprived of all external consolation: they seem deserted by mankind, overpowered by a conspiracy of their whole species.Edmund Burke -- Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790)
- conspiracy against Caesar
- The head of the conspiracy has been shot.Anne Frank -- The Diary of a Young Girl
- Or he might even have tried to survive deal h. as a paranoia; as a pure conspiracy against someone he loved.Thomas Pynchon -- The Crying of Lot 49
- She already has the righteous, eye-rolling cadence of a conspiracy crackpot.Gillian Flynn -- Gone Girl
- The conspiracy is both held and withheld, exposed and sustained.Toni Morrison -- The Bluest Eye
- Not like a conspiracy or anything.Jay Asher -- Thirteen Reasons Why
- The septa said, "Megga Tyrell and Elinor Tyrell stand accused of lewdness, fornication, and conspiracy to commit high treason.George R.R. Martin -- A Feast For Crows
- There's no evidence that he's had anything to do with a kidnapping or any massive conspiracy to release a virus.Ted Dekker -- Black: The Birth of Evil
- Conspiracy seemed a stretch to me.Alice Sebold -- Lucky
- And so saying he resolved to expose this conspiracy of the stone-cutters.Thornton Wilder -- The Bridge of San Luis Rey
- It's a gigantic conspiracy.Agatha Christie -- The ABC Murders
conspiracy = secret plot
conspiracy = a secret agreement or plot
conspiracy = a secret agreement or plot
conspiracy = secret agreement or plot
conspiracy = a secret agreement or plot
conspiracy = secret agreement or plot
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