marplot

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Humpty is Puss’ childhood frenemy: pal, rival and seemingly inept marplot to our hero’s suave efficiency in a crisis.

From Time • Oct. 28, 2011

Sporting heiress airs, a cruel gash of lipstick and a series of killer frocks in the 1948 A Date with Judy, Taylor plays snooty Carol, the marplot to Jane Powell's swell-town girl.

From Time • Apr. 14, 2011

Sporting heiress airs, a cruel gash of lipstick and a series of killer frocks in the 1948 A Date With Judy, Taylor has the role of snooty Carol, the marplot to Jane Powell's swell-town girl.

From Time • Mar. 23, 2011

Woodrow Wilson, often his foe, called him a marplot.

From Time Magazine Archive

“And I have been the marplot to spoil this merry company,” said Mr. Owen contritely.

From Peggy Owen and Liberty by Madison, Lucy Foster