How to Use conspiratorial in a Sentence

conspiratorial

adjective
  • She gave me a conspiratorial smile across the table.
  • His voice became low and conspiratorial.
  • Some may find that the book has a conspiratorial tinge.
    The Economist, 16 Sep. 2017
  • Why has the rational side of the country — the side that could be relied on to serve as a check against the more fantastic, conspiratorial side — fallen behind?
    Christopher Borrelli, chicagotribune.com, 11 Sep. 2017
  • The co-conspiratorial nature of the crimes implicates both spouses equally, and they have been charged accordingly.
    Belinda Luscombe, Time, 19 Jan. 2018
  • Another tweak to the prompt directed the chatbot to not rely on facts and evidence at all and try to talk participants out of the conspiratorial beliefs based on rapport alone.
    Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 12 Sep. 2024
  • Kai tapped the side of his head and gave me a conspiratorial smirk—this was some kind of secret weapon.
    William Finnegan, The New Yorker, 23 May 2022
  • Fox is the avatar of the Republican right, Breitbart of the alt-right, and Jones of the conspiratorial right.
    Jeet Heer, The New Republic, 18 Apr. 2018
  • So there's like a silliness to them and kind of this dark secret conspiratorial aspect to them.
    Gerrad Hall, EW.com, 21 June 2022
  • Yet there are true conspiratorial forces at play in the story.
    Dallas News, 18 Jan. 2022
  • But the staff person waved them in with a little conspiratorial shhh.
    Hazlitt, 13 June 2022
  • But the show is also in synch with conspiratorial fears about American justice, the sense that there’s no way to wear the badge without being stained.
    Emily Nussbaum, The New Yorker, 2 Dec. 2019
  • When people speak of—dialog about—the media these days, the tone tends to turn conspiratorial.
    Jason Kehe, Wired, 8 July 2020
  • In the spring of 2013, conspiratorial beliefs were taking hold across the country.
    Amanda J. Crawford, BostonGlobe.com, 17 Aug. 2022
  • With a conspiratorial whisper and a wealth of research, Hageman leads us through the false leads and final strange twist of the case that haunted Hollywood for decades.
    Vulture Editors, Vulture, 6 Aug. 2021
  • Hurley—or Snook, as he is known among friends—sounds conspiratorial, warm, jovial, and gorgeous.
    Amanda Petrusich, The New Yorker, 26 Nov. 2021
  • Which is to say that the conspiratorial air is distinctly racial.
    Nicholas Quah, Vulture, 13 May 2021
  • His mother pulled up around 1 a.m., by which point only a few conspiratorial EOB diehards were left in the parking lot to keep us company.
    Andrew Martin, The Atlantic, 12 June 2020
  • In Spain, Hinds receive a hero's welcome now but for years the country's mood towards them felt conspiratorial.
    Eve Barlow, GQ, 25 June 2018
  • Which brings us to the most depraved and sordid aspect of this whole conspiratorial movement.
    Cameron Hilditch, National Review, 18 Dec. 2020
  • Even on the newsier side, the conspiratorial mindset took over.
    Alex Shephard, The New Republic, 22 July 2022
  • That can be and sometimes is understood by people on the left in conspiratorial ways.
    Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 7 Nov. 2023
  • The first time Waller-Bridge interrupts her own dialog to shoot a disarming, conspiratorial glance to the screen, you're hooked.
    WIRED, 16 Jan. 2023
  • All of this is fiction, wrapped in the same conspiratorial gauze as countless other viral pseudoscience clips—but the McGill video cops to it just 40 seconds in.
    Brian Barrett, WIRED, 10 July 2018
  • The post may have sounded conspiratorial, but at least part of what West said was true: his ex-wife was in a new relationship that made for good television.
    M. J. Corey, The New Yorker, 27 Aug. 2022
  • Her smirk is conspiratorial, but Brandt could care less.
    Naomi Fry, The New Yorker, 28 Sep. 2020
  • Which meant that one of the NBA’s biggest stars — one known for being receptive to conspiratorial beliefs — would be under heavy pressure to get a shot.
    Matt Sullivan, Rolling Stone, 26 Sep. 2021
  • The region was a breeding ground for the John Birch Society, a conspiratorial anti-communist group in the ’60s.
    Washington Post, 29 June 2021
  • The expression on his face was a mix of conspiratorial frown and sheepishness.
    T. Edward Nickens, Field & Stream, 1 June 2020
  • The current moment has brought conspiratorial thinking, which emerged on the fringes of politics during Trump’s first term, into the center of a major-party platform, experts said.
    Mariana Alfaro, Washington Post, 24 July 2024

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