Thesaurus / machinations
FEEDBACKsynonyms for machinations
synonyms for machinations
- amour
- chicane
- chicanery
- dalliance
- deception
- devilry
- dirty pool
- double-dealing
- fling
- flirtation
- fooling around
- fourberie
- fraud
- funny business
- hankie-pankie
- hokey-pokey
- knavery
- liaison
- love affair
- mischief
- monkey business
- romance
- sexual activity
- sharp practice
- shenanigans
- skullduggery
- subterfuge
- trickery
Meet Grammar Coach
Improve Your Writing 
antonyms for machinations
MOST RELEVANT
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
How to use machinations in a sentence
He failed to see that this man had suffered bitterly through his evil machinations.
THE HOMESTEADEROSCAR MICHEAUXThe villain Longcluse, and the whole fabric of his machinations, may be dashed in pieces by a word.
CHECKMATEJOSEPH SHERIDAN LE FANUIt is from the plots and counter-plots, the machinations and subterfuges that follow that Miss Bowen justifies her title.
PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI, VOLUME 158, APRIL 28, 1920VARIOUSHe attacked the usurpations of Robespierre and the machinations of the Jacobins, by which he fell.
THE EVERY DAY BOOK OF HISTORY AND CHRONOLOGYJOEL MUNSELLHere was another plane of existence where the machinations of men seemed to matter little.
MYSTERY RANCHARTHUR CHAPMANBy the God above us, if I thought this was any of your devilish machinations, I would strike you to the earth!
JULIAN HOMEDEAN FREDERIC W. FARRARSomething deeper and more solemn than the machinations of man took a hand in the making of Llanyglo.
MUSHROOM TOWNOLIVER ONIONSThe following year he was deprived of the office by the machinations of the Bishop of Winchester, and fined £100.
BELL'S CATHEDRALS: THE CATHEDRAL CHURCH OF CARLISLEC. KING ELEYI know the blackened purpose of your heart too well; but Corbet still has a friend, who will deliver him from your machinations.'
THE MYSTERIOUS WANDERER, VOL. IIISOPHIA REEVEIf not, might not the machinations of a brain so subtile affect the peace and happiness of Alice Bridgenorth?
PEVERIL OF THE PEAKSIR WALTER SCOTTWORDS RELATED TO MACHINATIONS
- amour
- chicane
- chicanery
- dalliance
- deception
- devilry
- dirty pool
- double-dealing
- fling
- flirtation
- fooling around
- fourberie
- fraud
- funny business
- hankie-pankie
- hokey-pokey
- knavery
- liaison
- love affair
- machinations
- mischief
- monkey business
- romance
- sexual activity
- sharp practice
- shenanigans
- skullduggery
- subterfuge
- trickery
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.