Machinator

Quick meaning: Machinator is a noun meaning One who machinates, or forms a scheme with evil designs; a plotter or artful schemer.

Meaning

One who machinates, or forms a scheme with evil designs; a plotter or artful schemer.

Example Sentences

Before long the two machinators abandoned the rigour of the bare studio for a snug corner of a café.

Since then, he hath become an active and earnest agitator, a murmurer, and a machinator, and a leader amongst those who impugn our authority;

[…] ’tis one of the great Designs, as ’tis certainly the Interest, of those wicked Agents and Machinators, industriously to hide from us their Influences and Ways of acting;

[Augustine] and Cicero would be found to be brothers in many ways: failed family men and political upstart machinators whose prestige and creations succeeded beyond their lifetimes even while they themselves died amid the ruins of their earthly hopes;

Word Forms

• machinators

Synonyms for machinator

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

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include plotter, conspirator, coconspirator, machinatrix, machinist, mechanizer.

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