Intrigue
[ɪn'triːg] or ['ɪn'triɡ]
Definition
(noun.) a crafty and involved plot to achieve your (usually sinister) ends.
(noun.) a clandestine love affair.
(verb.) cause to be interested or curious.
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Definition
(v. i.) To form a plot or scheme; to contrive to accomplish a purpose by secret artifice.
(v. i.) To carry on a secret and illicit love or amour.
(v. t.) To fill with artifice and duplicity; to complicate; to embarrass.
(v. i.) Intricacy; complication.
(v. i.) A complicated plot or scheme intended to effect some purpose by secret artifice; conspiracy; stratagem.
(v. i.) The plot or romance; a complicated scheme of designs, actions, and events.
(v. i.) A secret and illicit love affair between two persons of different sexes; an amour; a liaison.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Plot, conspiracy, cabal, machination, stratagem, manœuvre, wile, finesse, ruse.[2]. Amour, love affair.
v. n. [1]. Manœuvre, form plots.[2]. Carry on an amour.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Cabal, plot, conspiracy, machination, artifice, design, manoeuvres, cunning,duplicity, trickery, chicanery, love_affair, amour, ruse
ANT:Insurrection, rebellion, congress, assembly, force, violence, assault,openness, candor, sincerity, honesty, probity, straightforwardness
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Definition
n. a complex plot: a private or party scheme: the plot of a play or romance: secret illicit love.—v.i. to form a plot or scheme: to carry on illicit love:—pr.p. intrigu′ing; pa.p. intrigued′.—ns. In′trigant Intrig′uer one who intrigues or pursues an object by secret artifices.
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Examples
- One of the sons of Murad I embarked on an intrigue with Andronicus, the son of the Greek Emperor, to murder their respective fathers. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The Christians lost Jerusalem again in 1244; it was taken from them very easily by the Sultan of Egypt when they attempted an intrigue against him. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- It surpassed any complications of intrigue in her favourite Pigault le Brun. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- He professed both to abominate and despise all mystery, refinement, and intrigue, either in a prince or a minister. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
- What were love and intrigue now? William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- Had there been women in the house, I should have suspected a mere vulgar intrigue. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- No one that I know, said De Bracy, unless it be your vow of celibacy, or a check of conscience for an intrigue with a Jewess. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- Gudrun liked her and was intrigued by her. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- Some families have fought, others have intrigued their way to world power; the Habsburgs married their way. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Your intrigues then are so frequent, that you forget with whom they occur it should seem? Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- Her intrigues with Russia for the furtherance of her object, excited the jealousy of the Porte, and the animosity of the Greek government. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- And so this devil is still going on with her intrigues, thought William. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- In the midst of these intrigues and fine parties and wise and brilliant personages Rawdon felt himself more and more isolated every day. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- We have our intrigues and our parties. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Permit me, Madame Clennam who suppresses, to present Monsieur Flintwinch who intrigues. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- We will not trouble ourselves here with the names and follies, the crimes and intrigues, of its tale of emperors. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The baseness of communing and intriguing with the fellow who would have set that stain upon her, and upon her brother too, was attained. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- All the journalists should be shot as well as most of the people in this room and certainly the intriguing German unmentionable of a Richard. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- I have been intriguing, since I came to Paris, with almost every Frenchwoman I could find. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- Why don't you take to intriguing with women of fashion? Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- The intriguing Palli, the accomplished Karazza, the warlike Ypsilanti, were among the principal. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
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