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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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Adnan Rifai, member of the People's Committee in Ein Al-Hilweh refugee camp, told AS SAFIR that the committee considers the agency's plans preliminary steps to cancel the entire agency, and to settle the refugees permanently in their diasporas "under the leadership of the conspiratory project with Western nations and the U.S.".
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and especially in Danzig...." (34) It found Greiser "fanatically given over to the idea of a Greater Germany." (35) Although the Tribunal linked Greiser to Hitler in a "conspiratory" sense, it also held that Greiser "successfully carried out the criminal order of his leader." (36) In coming to this latter conclusion, the Tribunal seems to implicitly accept that Greiser was not a policy-maker or high-level leader, but still convicted him for crimes against the peace.
Ryan said he and Zack had played acoustic guitar, and at one point, Shane came over and put a drum beat to one of their acoustic songs titled "Last Three Words." They would not say what the three words were, and burst into conspiratory laughter.
It is the Chinese minister who asks Peter Mandelson in a conspiratory tone at the end of negotiations "perhaps I shouldn't smile, it'll make your job easier," or Martin Schulz, the leader of the EPP-ED Group, who after negotiations on the Services Directive remarks "I told him that (Hans-Gert Pottering) wouldn't get a majority, I was bluffing," or Barroso convincing the liberals to vote on the Services Directive as "you're not going to vote with the communists".