Conspirator

Quick meaning: Conspirator is a noun meaning One of a group that acts in harmony to do something unlawful and unethical; a person who is part of a conspiracy.

Meaning

One of a group that acts in harmony to do something unlawful and unethical; a person who is part of a conspiracy.

Example Sentences

The conspirators were rounded up by the police and arrested.

All the Jacobite gentry of that part of the country were collected together; though, it must be confessed, their appearance and their usual after-dinner conversation were rather at variance. Now they looked calm and comfortable, with as little the appearance of conspirators as possible; then they were (by their own account) the most oppressed of individuals, and the most devoted of partisans, ready to die, so that their wrongs were redressed, and the rightful king restored.

Word Forms

• conspirators
• conspiratour

Synonyms for conspirator

Depending on context, synonyms include plotter, machinator, coconspirator.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include plotter, machinator, coconspirator, agent, operative, client.

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