counterplot
Americannoun
verb
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(tr) to oppose with a counterplot
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(intr) to devise or carry out a counterplot
Etymology
Origin of counterplot
Example Sentences
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Unlike the “Bourne” films, whose baroque webbing of plot and counterplot suggested an allegory of global paranoia, “Haywire” goes to great lengths to avoid being about anything beyond its immediate situations and effects.
From New York Times ● Jan. 19, 2012
From Berlin, a counterplot by Himmler, designed only to steal the play away from Wolff, threatened to retire Sunrise to the limbo of lost causes.
From Time Magazine Archive
In two of three new television shows, the singers are almost buried under plot and counterplot, characterization and attempted comedy.
From Time Magazine Archive
Since the starlings were plainly not going to migrate from Radford of their own accord, the townsfolk and various wildlife experts hatched a counterplot.
From Time Magazine Archive
Running like a thread through all these events was a little counterplot.
From The Life of Napoleon Bonaparte Vol. I. (of IV.) by Sloane, William Milligan
By this fellow's means, I have counterplotted all his master's fine schemes.
From St. Ronan's Well by Scott, Walter, Sir
Khrushchev can no longer invoke the capricious plotting, counterplotting and murders of Stalin's Kremlin.
From Time Magazine Archive
So after all the plotting, the counterplotting, the dangers and hardships; after all her own gallant efforts, the girl had lost the game.
From A Pagan of the Hills by Buck, Charles Neville
He resolved to learn the nature of the plots that were in existence, before he commenced counterplotting.
From The Spy of the Rebellion Being a True History of the Spy System of the United States Army during the Late Rebellion, by Pinkerton, Allan
There followed a long contest, in which there was plotting and counterplotting on one side and on the other, and manœuvres without end.
From Margaret of Anjou Makers of History by Abbott, Jacob
Would all this trouble, the plotting and counterplotting, never end?
From John Marsh's Millions by Hornblow, Arthur
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