All 7 Uses
conspirator
in
The Waves, by Virginia Woolf
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- But Neville, delicately avoiding interference, stealthily, like a conspirator, hastens back to his room.†
*conspirator = a participant involved in a secret plot
- We who are conspirators, withdrawn together to lean over some cold urn, note how the purple flame flows downwards.†
conspirators = participants involved in a secret plot
- Listen, Rhoda (for we are conspirators, with our hands on the cold urn), to the casual, quick, exciting voice of action, of hounds running on the scent.†
- 'Like conspirators who have something to whisper,' said Rhoda.†
- We have sacrificed the embrace among the ferns, and love, love, love by the lake, standing, like conspirators who have drawn apart to share some secret, by the urn.†
- Louis and Rhoda, the conspirators, the spies at table, who take notes, felt, "After all, Bernard can make the waiter fetch us rolls—a contact denied us."†
- —and came to the surface and saw the conspirators still standing there it was with some compunction.†
Definitions:
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(1)
(conspirator) a member of a conspiracy (a secret plot)
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)