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单词 conspirator
释义
conspirator
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n

A conspirator sneaks around making plans to commit crimes with other people. A conspirator’s plans are often politically motivated, and not always illegal but always secret and sneaky.
You know how some people think that the Apollo moon landing was a hoax or that everything is controlled by alien lizard people? No? Well, people who see secret plots everywhere believe in conspiracies, and anyone involved in a conspiracy is a conspirator. However, many conspirators are real and part of everyday plots, like to rob a bank. All conspirators work in secret to commit crimes. Any crime involving more than one person will have conspirators.
WORD FAMILY
conspirator: conspiratorial, conspirators+/conspiracy: conspiracies/conspiratorial: conspiratorially/conspire: conspiracy, conspirative, conspirator, conspired, conspires, conspiring
USAGE EXAMPLES
Even so, Francis and his conspirators almost got away with it.
Washington Post(Dec 27, 2016)
According to court papers, investigators learned of more than 200 conspirators worldwide.
Washington Times(Dec 16, 2016)
Prosecutors say Dadlani let conspirators involved in the plot to swipe cards that didn’t belong to them at his Jersey City store.
Washington Times(Nov 30, 2016)
n a member of a conspiracy
Syn|Exp|Hyper
coconspirator, machinator, plotter
Guy Fawkes
English conspirator who was executed for his role in a plot to blow up James I and the Houses of Parliament (1570-1606)
Titus Oates
English conspirator who claimed that there was a Jesuit plot to assassinate Charles II (1649-1705)
criminal, crook, felon, malefactor, outlaw
someone who has committed a crime or has been legally convicted of a crime
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