machinate
verb (used with or without object)
to contrive or plot, especially artfully or with evil purpose.
machinator
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a word derived from
machinate.
Example Sentences
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Off in the distance, some unseen machinator is feeding him his lines.
From Slate ● Feb. 9, 2016
"Wasna that a graun' ane?" said the machinator.
From St. Cuthbert's by Robert E. Knowles
Does it not arise from complicity with England, that machinator of conspiracies against the power and the life of the First Consul?
From The Empire of Russia by John S. C. (John Stevens Cabot) Abbott
You stand there silent, but you are the machinator of this plot.
From The Tyranny of the Dark by Hamlin Garland
I cannot tell whether that slender, silken machinator, Captain Lake, loitered in the chapel for the purpose of talking to or avoiding Jos.
From Wylder's Hand by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
