Conspiratorial
adjective
Involving a secret agreement between people to do something bad.
They shared a conspiratorial look across the room.
Often appears as...
- conspiratorial whisper
- conspiratorial tone
adjective
Characteristic of a conspiracy.
His actions had a conspiratorial aura to them.
Often appears as...
- conspiratorial aura
- conspiratorial plotting
adjective
Involving a secret agreement between people to do something bad.
They shared a conspiratorial look across the room.
Often appears as...
- conspiratorial whisper
- conspiratorial tone
adjective
Characteristic of a conspiracy.
His actions had a conspiratorial aura to them.
Often appears as...
- conspiratorial aura
- conspiratorial plotting
Definition 1 of 2
Pro Tip 1/3Negative Connotation
The word implies wrongdoing or unethical behavior.
Their conspiratorial activities were eventually exposed.
Pro Tip 2/3Secretive Context
Often used when describing actions not meant to be public knowledge.
The two coworkers had a conspiratorial meeting in a secluded location.
Pro Tip 3/3Subtle Communication
Indicates non-verbal, secretive exchanges like gestures or looks.
They exchanged a conspiratorial nod, understanding the plan without words.
Pro Tip 1/3Negative Connotation
The word implies wrongdoing or unethical behavior.
Their conspiratorial activities were eventually exposed.
Pro Tip 2/3Secretive Context
Often used when describing actions not meant to be public knowledge.
The two coworkers had a conspiratorial meeting in a secluded location.
Pro Tip 3/3Subtle Communication
Indicates non-verbal, secretive exchanges like gestures or looks.
They exchanged a conspiratorial nod, understanding the plan without words.
Pro Tip 1/3Negative Connotation
The word implies wrongdoing or unethical behavior.
Their conspiratorial activities were eventually exposed.
Pro Tip 2/3Secretive Context
Often used when describing actions not meant to be public knowledge.
The two coworkers had a conspiratorial meeting in a secluded location.
Pro Tip 3/3Subtle Communication
Indicates non-verbal, secretive exchanges like gestures or looks.
They exchanged a conspiratorial nod, understanding the plan without words.
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The wicked wit of Jane...
Her dry wit and cheeky playfulness informs her heroines, whose conversational tone welcomes readers with a conspiratorial wink. It’s even been said that some readers feel like the author’s secret confidante, trading letters with their delightfully wicked friend Jane. But this unique brand of tongue-in-cheek humor
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America's forgotten...
and it leads sometimes to very conspiratorial places. So let's just take one political issue that's pretty hot, affirmative action. So depending on your politics, you might think that affirmative action is either a wise or an unwise way to promote diversity in the workplace
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First Look PIPE Killing...
that's what he was trying to do he was trying to show humanity its beauty obviously the biblical story is being told and told and told again but we found trying to sort of get a perspective looking at the conspiratorial social sort of political
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Advocating for gender...
lobbied individually relentlessly every single member of the panel we attended their public meetings we haunted their emails we brought their most influential friends into the advocacy equation we met with them secretly in conspiratorial
Video examples
The wicked wit of Jane...
Her dry wit and cheeky playfulness informs her heroines, whose conversational tone welcomes readers with a conspiratorial wink. It’s even been said that some readers feel like the author’s secret confidante, trading letters with their delightfully wicked friend Jane. But this unique brand of tongue-in-cheek humor
Video examples
America's forgotten...
and it leads sometimes to very conspiratorial places. So let's just take one political issue that's pretty hot, affirmative action. So depending on your politics, you might think that affirmative action is either a wise or an unwise way to promote diversity in the workplace
Video examples
First Look PIPE Killing...
that's what he was trying to do he was trying to show humanity its beauty obviously the biblical story is being told and told and told again but we found trying to sort of get a perspective looking at the conspiratorial social sort of political
Video examples
Advocating for gender...
lobbied individually relentlessly every single member of the panel we attended their public meetings we haunted their emails we brought their most influential friends into the advocacy equation we met with them secretly in conspiratorial
Example 1 of 4
Quote examples
Brian Stelter
American Journalist
Glenn Beck and others were pretty outrageous and extremely conspiratorial in the pre-Trump years. I don't mean to totally gloss over some of the nuttiness that was airing on Fox pre-Trump, but I do see a distinction between those years and the Trump years.
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Louis Stokes
American Politician
Well that's true, and what is actually happening now is that there are accusations that those records contain conspiratorial information that has been concealed from the American people and that is a dangerous situation that just cannot be tolerated.
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John le Carre
English Writer
Most people like to read about intrigue and spies. I hope to provide a metaphor for the average reader's daily life. Most of us live in a slightly conspiratorial relationship with our employer and perhaps with our marriage.
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Paul Farmer
American Educator
I've been impressed, over the last 15 years, with how often the somewhat conspiratorial comments of Haitian villagers have been proven to be correct when the historical record is probed carefully.
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Simon Toyne
British Writer
I'm certainly not the first author to tiptoe into the conspiratorial, religious-tinged territory, but - and I hate to break this to the faithful - neither is Dan Brown.
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Claire Fox
British Writer
I have no truck with the faintly conspiratorial argument that international governments are gleeful about a public-health emergency to enact authoritarian measures.
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George Tenet
American Public Servant
I'm Greek, and we're conspiratorial by nature.
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Brian Stelter
American Journalist
Glenn Beck and others were pretty outrageous and extremely conspiratorial in the pre-Trump years. I don't mean to totally gloss over some of the nuttiness that was airing on Fox pre-Trump, but I do see a distinction between those years and the Trump years.
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Louis Stokes
American Politician
Well that's true, and what is actually happening now is that there are accusations that those records contain conspiratorial information that has been concealed from the American people and that is a dangerous situation that just cannot be tolerated.
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John le Carre
English Writer
Most people like to read about intrigue and spies. I hope to provide a metaphor for the average reader's daily life. Most of us live in a slightly conspiratorial relationship with our employer and perhaps with our marriage.
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Paul Farmer
American Educator
I've been impressed, over the last 15 years, with how often the somewhat conspiratorial comments of Haitian villagers have been proven to be correct when the historical record is probed carefully.
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Simon Toyne
British Writer
I'm certainly not the first author to tiptoe into the conspiratorial, religious-tinged territory, but - and I hate to break this to the faithful - neither is Dan Brown.
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Claire Fox
British Writer
I have no truck with the faintly conspiratorial argument that international governments are gleeful about a public-health emergency to enact authoritarian measures.
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George Tenet
American Public Servant
I'm Greek, and we're conspiratorial by nature.
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