conspiratorial Definition
con·spira·to·rial (kən spir′ə tôr′ē əl)
adjective
- of or characteristic of a conspirator or conspiracy
- 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.
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