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conspiratorial Definition

con·spira·to·rial (kən spir′ə tôrē əl)

adjective

  1. of or characteristic of a conspirator or conspiracy
  2. conspiring or fond of conspiracy

conspiratorial Related Forms

con·spir′a·to·ri·ally adverb

conspiratorial Usage Examples

Modifies a noun

  • meeting: However, witnesses have placed him in conspiratorial meetings in one of the hotel's rooms at which murder was planned.
  • method: The Revolutionary Communist Party used conspiratorial methods for its more important work.
  • activity: He is dismissed as a drunk, a gossip unsuited to conspiratorial activity, another Irish failure without the saving grace of martyrdom.
  • tone: I say " she added to her chums in a conspiratorial tone, " that's a good idea!
  • view: Some of the criticism is clearly ideological, and some reflects a conspiratorial view of how newspapers work.
  • wink: He looked vaguely startled, but I smiled at him again, giving him a conspiratorial wink.

Modifying Another Word

too: It is too conspiratorial to see in these debates the creation, in secret, of New Labor.