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
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
With what wealth of plot and counterplot did the play proceed!
From Time Magazine Archive
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
By the second challenge Jim had risen to the situation and formed his counterplot.
From Humours of Irish Life by Various
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
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
Instead of counterplotting, as I might have done, I was pleased at their frustrated efforts.
From The Pacha of Many Tales by Marryat, Frederick
Over the plotting and counterplotting, the rivalries and jealousies which followed, we must pass.
From Love affairs of the Courts of Europe by Hall, Thornton
During the whole reign they were plotting and counterplotting, mining and undermining.
From The Leading Facts of English History by Montgomery, D. H. (David Henry)
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