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intrigue against (someone)

To plot or conspire against someone else. What will they do if they find out that we're intriguing against the chairman of the board?
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intrigue with (someone)

To plot or conspire with someone against someone else. What will they do if they find out that I'm intriguing with Tom against the chairman of the board?
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intrigue with (someone) against (someone)

To plot or conspire with someone against someone else. What will they do if they find out that I'm intriguing with Tom against the chairman of the board?
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palace intrigue

In-fighting and power struggles within a particular organization. I'm not surprised he tried to sabotage my presentation—we're both up for the promotion, and palace intrigue is the norm around here. The former CEO's memoir exposes the palace intrigue at Spikerosoft in the years leading up to his resignation.
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intrigue someone with someone or something

to fascinate someone with someone or something. Walter intrigued the baby with his keys and funny faces. The king intrigued the guests with a seductive dancer who had trained in the Far East.
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intrigue (with someone) (against someone)

to conspire with someone against someone. You are guilty of intriguing with an enemy against the government. I did not intrigue against anyone.
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D'abord parce qu'elle est elle-meme un cas d'intertextualite.(55) Et ensuite parce qu'elle n'a cesse d' intriguer, depuis 1838, un grand nombre de lecteurs (et d'ecrivains).
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Grimhild is a malicious but short-sighted intriguer; always she looks to the Niflungs's immediate advantage but never beyond that.
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Oswald's curious relationship with the veteran intriguer George De Mohrenschildt will always fascinate conspiracy buffs.
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Wheelock, Jr., curator of northern baroque painting at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC, linked three 1920s-vintage Vermeer forgeries to the workshop of a Dutch art-world intriguer named Theo van Wijngaarden, long known as a mentor and associate of Van Meegeren.
Van Meegeren's early Vermeers: Jonathan Lopez reveals that three 1920s fake Vermeers are by the notorious art forger Han van Meegeren, who, far from being an independent operator, was part of a slick operation of organised art fraud
Notorious as an extremist, intriguer, and back-stabber, Hekmatyar has bedeviled Afghanistan's politics for three decades.
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He was a compulsive intriguer for whom treachery was very much a relative term: "They think that I am immoral and Machiavellian, yet I am simply impassive and disdainful.
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Hamlet momentarily steps back from the role of troubled intriguer to show the audience his connoisseurship of plays, acting, and dramatic poetry.
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