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Synonyms for conspiracy

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Synonyms for conspiracy

a secret plan to achieve an evil or illegal end

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Synonyms for conspiracy

a secret agreement between two or more people to perform an unlawful act

a plot to carry out some harmful or illegal act (especially a political plot)

a group of conspirators banded together to achieve some harmful or illegal purpose

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If there had been nothing else, this incident alone would have suggested a prearranged conspiracy to my mind."
Douglas and Barker are both in a conspiracy to conceal something; that they aided the murderer's escape--or at least that they reached the room before he escaped--and that they fabricated evidence of his escape through the window, whereas in all probability they had themselves let him go by lowering the bridge.
She could not get sufficiently far from herself to see that her half-formed conclusions on the subject of the Bygraves had ended in making that family objects of suspicion to her; that the association of ideas had thereupon carried her mind back to that other object of suspicion which was represented by the conspiracy against her master; and that the two ideas of those two separate subjects of distrust, coming suddenly in contact, had struck the light.
Lecount at once decided to keep her own counsel the next morning, and to pause before attacking the conspiracy until she could produce unanswerable facts to help her.
Her exasperation at the failure of her first attempt to expose the conspiracy had not blinded her to the instant necessity of making a second effort before Noel Vanstone's growing infatuation g ot beyond her control.
"We know nothing as yet of the conspiracy, monsieur; all the papers found have been sealed up and placed on your desk.
"It is a conspiracy, then?" asked Dantes, who after believing himself free, now began to feel a tenfold alarm.
'Whew!' cried John, 'a conspiracy! Soom'at in the pooder-plot wa'?
'No, no, no, a conspiracy connected with his school; I'll explain it presently.'
Roman (34) and Marian Rafael (41) of Farndale Road, Newcastle, were jailed for 10 years after admitting two counts of conspiracy to traffic people, two counts of conspiracy to launder money and two counts of conspiracy to carry out forced/ compulsory labour.
President Donald Trump will do just about anything to get his daily, hypodermic fix of attention, including the spread of racist tropes and conspiracy theories.
WASHINGTON, July 23 (KUNA) -- A US federal grand jury has charged four Chinese nationals and a Chinese company "with violating the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA), conspiracy to violate IEEPA and defraud the United States," Department of Justice announced Tuesday.
Details of those sentenced: Meshach Masiah Duncan, 31, of Weeford Drive, Birmingham, pleaded guilty to two counts of conspiracy to supply crack cocaine and two counts of conspiracy to supply heroin.
Self-taught buffs became central to conspiracy theory communities of the late 1960s, writes Professor Peter Knight.
| Stuart Mason, 55 and of Green Lane, Wakefield, West Yorkshire, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to produce Class B (amphetamine) and was jailed for four years and 10 months.