conspiracy theory
noun
A belief that some covert but influential organization is responsible for an unexplained event: they sought to account for the attacks in terms of a conspiracy theory...
- Even at this point there was still a misfit between the diabolical conspiracy theory and the popular conception of witchcraft.
- I don't believe in conspiracy theories, and that's why this is not a conspiracy theory.
- Then he went and ruined a good conspiracy theory, by explaining that it was a note so that two similar reports didn't get confused.
Derivatives
conspiracy theorist
- You don't have to be a conspiracy theorist to question the administration's timing.
- For some conspiracy theorists, the timing of his arrest was almost too perfect.
- She is a conspiracy theorist whose political conceits have consistently been proved wrong.