Conspirator
[kən'spɪrətə] or [kən'spɪrətɚ]
Definition
(n.) One who engages in a conspiracy; a plotter.
Typed by Eddie
Examples
- A sort of Byronic hero--an amorous conspirator, it strikes me. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- His instinct was to regard her as a conspirator against rather than as an antecedent obstacle to Thomasin's happiness. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- It is the face of a conspirator. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- Also he has the true manner of the conspirator. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- Any one seeing him enter a room knows that he is instantly in the presence of a conspirator of the first mark. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- There; if that's conspiracy, call me conspirator. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- Who and where is the false conspirator who says that I denounce the husband of my child! Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- First, I know that here we are whispering in secrecy, a pair of conspirators. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- YOU assume that the Hindoo conspirators could by no possibility commit a mistake. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- They returned to the men, like two conspirators who have withdrawn to come to an agreement. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- Perhaps conspirators who have once established an understanding, may not be over-fond of repeating the terms and objects of their conspiracy. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- All who have read of conspirators in books trust him instantly. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- Force of police arriving, he recognized in them the conspirators, and laid about him hoarsely, fiercely, staringly, convulsively, foamingly. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
Edited by Ervin