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conspiracy

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1. conspiracy - Noun

2. conspiracy - Verb

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A combination of men for an evil purpose; an agreement, between two or more persons, to commit a crime in concert, as treason; a plot.

A concurence or general tendency, as of circumstances, to one event, as if by agreement.

An agreement, manifesting itself in words or deeds, by which two or more persons confederate to do an unlawful act, or to use unlawful to do an act which is lawful; confederacy.

Source: Webster's dictionary

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America is a vast conspiracy to make you happy. John Updike

Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe. Frederick Douglass

It is, I think, an indisputable fact that Americans are, as Americans, the most self-conscious people in the world, and the most addicted to the belief that the other nations of the earth are in a conspiracy to under value them. Henry James

Any writer, I suppose, feels that the world into which he was born is nothing less than a conspiracy against the cultivation of his talent. James Baldwin

Decency is Indecency's conspiracy of silence. George Bernard Shaw

We have learned in recent years to translate almost all of political life in terms of conspiracy. And the spy novel, as never before, really, has come into its own. John le Carré

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