deep-laid

American  

[deep-leyd] / ˈdipˈleɪd /

adjective

1. carefully, cunningly, or secretly made.

   a deep-laid plot.

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deep-laid British  

adjective

1. (of a plot or plan) carefully worked out and kept secret

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Etymology

Origin of deep-laid

First recorded in 1760–70

Example Sentences

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deep-laid

Spencer has pointed out that the Universe is one deep-laid framework for the production of such beneficent contrivances.

From The Contemporary Review, Volume 36, November 1879 by Various

Neither Austria nor the German people had the slightest comprehension of the Minister's deep-laid plans.

From A Short History of Germany by Mary Platt Parmele

If it were a scheme of the most deep-laid coquetry, instead of the result of a lifetime's habit of self-sacrifice, she could not have hit upon a better method of inflaming his passion.

From Doctor Cupid by Rhoda Broughton

Oh, miserable and guilty woman, what have you gained by all your deep-laid schemes of villainy?

From The Monctons A Novel: Volume 2 (of 2) by Susanna Moodie

The deep-laid plot she had woven had been so far successful, and now events had only to develop one stage farther upon their natural course for her efforts to be crowned with complete triumph.

From By Veldt and Kopje by W. C. (William Charles) Scully