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SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Plotting & trapping
be in league with someoneidiom
cahoots
catch someone out
chemtrail
chicanery
conspiracy
conspiracy theorist
conspiracy theory
conspire
entrap
insinuate
outplot
plotter
ploy
pretext
pretextual
put-up job
sting
what's your game?idiom
wheeze

Examples from literature

It was followed by a succession of wild cries, and with one accord the terror-stricken conspirators made for the highway. 
The astute conspirators had fully laid their plans as to what was to follow. 
The conspirators replied that they would be in readiness. 
Who are the conspirators hailing the Prince as their chief? 
You intend to arrest me as a conspirator! 

conspirator | American Dictionary

conspirator
noun[ C ]
us/kənˈspɪr·ə·t̬ər/
a person who plans secretly with other people to do something bad, illegal, or against someone’s wishes

Examples of conspirator

conspirator
News of this reached the conspirators the following day.
This was no doubt enhanced by the arrest and confinement in a special camp of the children of the conspirators under the age of 16.
The unidentified conspirator is able to go about his business unremarked, and any alias that he adopts, however unimaginative, is likely to withstand scrutiny.
If most of the secondary conspirators shared anything, it was ignorance.
The political account of enthusiasm, another nonmedical interpretation given to the phenomenon of prophecy and enthusiasm, viewed the enthusiasts as impostors and even conspirators.
There is a temptation to gloss over differences, to attribute to every ' identikit' conspirator similar ambitions, and similar dreams.
And at the decisive moment fortune did not favour the conspirators.
If they do commit the object crime, most conspirators will in fact be either perpetrators or accomplices.
The conspirators had inadvertently expedited the two occurrences that they so ardently sought to prevent.
The scheme was that an individual entered into a fabricated mortgage of joint property with a fellow conspirator.
The conspirators wanted to halt the process by negotiating a peaceful end to the civil wars, so that the army's vestigial honour was preserved and the state's integrity ensured.
The following period saw the mass arrest of the relatives involved in the attempt, including the arrest of the entire families of most of the main conspirators.
From 1655 he was in complete control of the post office and oversaw a thriving business of opening and copying the letters of known and suspected conspirators.
Amelia understands what he is thinking, but the rest of the world, represented on stage by the chorus of conspirators, does not.
Catesby's team-building talents extended to the choice of secondary conspirators outside this 'inner ring'.
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