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
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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
In two of three new television shows, the singers are almost buried under plot and counterplot, characterization and attempted comedy.
From Time Magazine Archive
Conspiracy buffs will love the nearly incomprehensible swirl of plot and counterplot attending the great British Queen's rise to power.
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
Thus, with plot and counterplot, did the mutineers and Otaheitans render their lives wretched.
From The Lonely Island The Refuge of the Mutineers by R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne
By this fellow's means, I have counterplotted all his master's fine schemes.
From St. Ronan's Well by Sir Walter Scott
Khrushchev can no longer invoke the capricious plotting, counterplotting and murders of Stalin's Kremlin.
From Time Magazine Archive
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 Jacob Abbott
Instead of counterplotting, as I might have done, I was pleased at their frustrated efforts.
From The Pacha of Many Tales by Frederick Marryat
During the whole reign they were plotting and counterplotting, mining and undermining.
From The Leading Facts of English History by D. H. (David Henry) Montgomery
Would all this trouble, the plotting and counterplotting, never end?
From John Marsh's Millions by Arthur Hornblow
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