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Synonyms for machinate

to work out a secret plan to achieve an evil or illegal end

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Synonyms for machinate

arrange by systematic planning and united effort

engage in plotting or enter into a conspiracy, swear together

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Such was not sufficient warning, as the US unwise President Bush appointed the official, who machinated Iraq's tragedy and was behind the killing of nearly 7 hundred thousand people and wounding more than million, plus the waste of the Arab country's oil wealth according to Iraqi and American sources, as President of the World Bank.
There is no end, only and forever the means, always more machinated. XXV Taking away the breath of work, its inconceivable dynasty, setting back the liberal arts until they no longer reflect on anything, this is the boneheap.
While not denying membership in Al Qaeda, Moussaoui has maintained all along that Ramzi Binalshibh, who machinated the attacks from Germany, can clear him.
Do the machinated shenanigans of Pop Idols, Blue, Starsailor, Slipknot, So Solid Crew and the other manufactured chart worriers really move you?
In 1302 Boniface VIII had machinated to send Charles of Valois into Florence on the pretense of making peace between the Black and White factions of the Guelph party; instead Charles connived with the Blacks, while they plundered the property of the Whites and drove them into exile.
[10] The politics of his campaign had three components: (1) a struggle of (outlying) county farmers against the central elite for greater county representation; (2) a struggle of small county farmers against the county elites for greater local representation; and (3) a campaign against the indigenous as the "real enemy." In its program for representation, Bacon's Rebellion reveals the main characteristics of all subsequent populism (a question to which we will return): the conjunction of democratic pretensions (a rhetorical struggle against the rich) with an opportunistically machinated chauvinist campaign against a nonwhite group (the Algonquin, in Bacon's case).
He's already turned away speculative interest from arch-rival Sage - two years ago the Newcastle company machinated away behind the scenes without ever tabling a formal bid, butwas believed to have been considering an offer based on 475p a share.
At the same time, and like these two works, much of Valenzuela's narrative has focused on what is euphemistically called the Dirty War, the institutionally machinated terrorism, torture, death, and disappearance perpetuated by the military and the paramilitary in Argentina of the 1970s and early 1980s.
The boys and girls primary school, established half a century ago, had a tough access due to its location in isolated hilly off road terrain and the exclusive teacher used to come at 11 o'clock and slunk off at 12 o'clock, he said.The residents had launched complaints to the authorities concerned against his carefree approach, 'So he machinated the entire move of the facility's transfer to his own home town, he asserted.