Sample sentences for CONSPIRACY

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Definition

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.

conspiracy = secret plot

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

conspiracy = a secret agreement or plot

Louisa thought that McDonald's was a giant conspiracy against the health of all Americans.
Rebecca Stead -- When You Reach Me

conspiracy = a secret agreement or plot

DANFORTH: Now, woman, you surely see it profit nothin' to keep this conspiracy any further.
Arthur Miller -- The Crucible

conspiracy = secret agreement or plot

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

conspiracy = a secret agreement or plot

To Danforth: Without confidences there could be no conspiracy, Your Honor!
Arthur Miller -- The Crucible

conspiracy = secret agreement or plot

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

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