conspiratorial
Example Sentences
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“There was even a Butterfly hiding under the stage,” Officer Salzburg said conspiratorially, leaning forward as though he was telling me a secret I didn’t already know.
From Literature
“I just had this fantasy,” she says with a slightly conspiratorial air.
From Los Angeles Times
The conspiratorial idea of a southern-based “Slave Power” organization began appearing in Northern newspapers.
From Literature
At first, I felt vaguely conspiratorial — like I was getting away with something.
From Salon
And this is always … again, I come back to the conspiratorial point because I do think that that is a form of conspiracy theory.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
