conspiratorial
adjective
relating to or being a conspiracy, a secretive plan that is unlawful, harmful, or evil.
conspiratory
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a variation of
conspiratorial.
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a word derived from
conspiracy.
Example Sentences
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Mary Queen of Scots wrote conspiratory messages in cipher; when intercepted and interpreted by England's first great cryptanalyst, Thomas Phelippes, they helped bring Mary to the chopping block.
From Time Magazine Archive
When he learns that I live in New York, Ridha Mohammed leans toward me and lowers his voice to a conspiratory whisper.
From Time Magazine Archive
Soon they found themselves engaged in a secret conspiratory movement having for its object the overthrow of Czarism.
From Bolshevism The Enemy of Political and Industrial Democracy by John Spargo
It is the inevitable fate of secret, conspiratory movements that this should be so, and also that it should result in saturating the minds of all engaged in the movements with distrust and suspicion.
From Bolshevism The Enemy of Political and Industrial Democracy by John Spargo
That such a secret conspiratory body exists has been charged from time to time during more than a century, yet not a particle of evidence to sustain the charge has ever been produced.
From The Jew and American Ideals by John Spargo
