What does deep-laid mean?
Deep-laid means (of schemes, etc.) secret and carefully planned..
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Pronunciation varies by accent · adjective
(of schemes, etc.) secret and carefully planned..
Captain Cuttle, in the exercise of that surprising talent for deep-laid and unfathomable scheming, with which (as is not unusual in men of transparent simplicity) he sincerely believed himself to be endowed by nature, […]
'Then why did you make every preparation—turn the Republics into armed camps—prepare deep-laid plans for the invasion of our Colonies?'
What worried him was the wire-cutting; he could not but believe that it was an important part of the deep-laid labour conspiracy.
Use deep-laid when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Deep-laid means (of schemes, etc.) secret and carefully planned..
Common synonyms include abstruse, behind the scenes, catlike, backroom.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
Captain Cuttle, in the exercise of that surprising talent for deep-laid and unfathomable scheming, with which (as is not unusual in men of transparent simplicity) he sincerely believed himself to be endowed by nature, […]
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