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

Pride, delicacy, regard for his child, every consideration, forbade his exposing the duplicity of my mother; and, indeed, had he attempted it—it would but have confirmed the opinion, her deep-laid project had established.

From The Mysterious Wanderer, Vol. III A Novel in Three Volumes by Reeve, Sophia

"That's my belief," agreed Stone; "the whole affair is a carefully planned and deep-laid scheme, and concocted in a clever and diabolically ingenious brain."

From The Diamond Pin by Wells, Carolyn

This plan delighted Miss Ruth, but I saw in it the beginning of the workings of a deep-laid scheme.

From The Casting Away of Mrs. Lecks and Mrs. Aleshine by Stockton, Frank Richard

This event was only the climax of a deep-laid and skilfully organised plot—one of the most extraordinary in all history.

From A Literary History of the Arabs by Nicholson, Reynold

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