Synonyms for conspiracy
kənˈspɪr ə sicon·spir·a·cy

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1. conspiracy

   A conspiracy is a combination of persons for an evil purpose, or the act of so combining. Conspiracy is a distinct crime under common, and generally under statutory, law. A faction is more extensive than a conspiracy, less formal in organization, less definite in plan. Faction and its adjective, factious, have always an unfavorable sense. Cabal commonly denotes a conspiracy of leaders. A gang is a company of workmen all doing the same work under one leader; the word is used figuratively only of combinations which it is meant to stigmatize as rude and mercenary; crew is used in a closely similar sense. A conclave is secret, but of larger numbers, ordinarily, than a cabal, and may have honorable use; as, the conclave of cardinals.

   Synonyms:
   cabal, combination, conclave, confederacy, crew, faction, gang, junto

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1. conspiracy

   Synonyms:
   intrigue, cabal, plot, treason, treachery, machination, coalition

   Antonyms:
   legislation, parliament, congress, synod, comp, conclave and cabal

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1. conspiracy, confederacynoun

   a secret agreement between two or more people to perform an unlawful act

   Synonyms:
   cabal, confederacy, federation, confederation

2. conspiracy, cabalnoun

   a plot to carry out some harmful or illegal act (especially a political plot)

   Synonyms:
   cabal, confederacy, junto, faction, camarilla

3. conspiracy, confederacynoun

   a group of conspirators banded together to achieve some harmful or illegal purpose

   Synonyms:
   cabal, confederacy, federation, confederation

Matched Categories

1. • Plot
   • Politics

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1. conspiracynoun

   Synonyms:
   plot, combination, cabal, complot, intrigue, machination

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1. conspiracynoun

   Synonyms:
   plot, complot, machination, cabal, intrigue, collusion

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1. List of paraphrases for "conspiracy":

   plot, collusion, complicity, conspiracies, conspiring, cover-up

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1. Chuck Park:

   One thing I agree with the conspiracy theorists about : The Deep State, if The Deep State did exist, would be wrong.

2. David Brock:

   It's not a vast right wing conspiracy. It's a right-wing conglomerate, it's more sophisticated, it's well-financed, it's well known.

3. Independent Journal Review:

   If Mollie Hemingway think there will be any pleasing the conspiracy theorists, recall that Melania Trump once appeared in front of cameras, in public, and Resistance Twitter insisted Resistance Twitter was a body double.

4. Laura Zorc:

   The NEA owes concerned parents an apology for accusing them of being violent, 'radicalized,' and controlled by ‘conspiracy theories,’ through BEST, I helped train more than 1,000 parent activists in 2021, and I can tell you that this is not what I saw.

5. Joseph Sobran:

   Politics is the conspiracy of the unproductive but organized against the productive but unorganized.