How to Use conspiratorial in a Sentence

conspiratorial

adjective

• She gave me a conspiratorial smile across the table.
• His voice became low and conspiratorial.
• Adams’s work initially appealed to conspiratorial elements present within both the right and the left.
  — Sarah Jones, The New Republic, 6 Apr. 2018
• 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
• Like most conspiratorial thinking, this argument seems persuasive on its surface but falls apart under the slightest scrutiny.
  — Phil Plait, Scientific American, 30 Aug. 2024
• The looks and glances exchanged — some mocking, some knowing, some conspiratorial — are a drama in themselves as these formidable actors show us the inner life of a dying woman.
  — Toby Zinman, Philly.com, 2 Apr. 2018
• Achieving higher levels of education correlates to feeling more secure about the world, and this, in turn, seems to protect against a conspiratorial mindset.
  — Brian Resnick, Vox, 11 Apr. 2018
• These developments are good news for the president and a major setback for the conspiratorial media and liberal Democrats in this country.
  — Fox News, 20 Apr. 2018
• 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
• 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 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
• This is how most immigrant communities in the United States form; there’s nothing conspiratorial about it.
  — Roxane Gay, The New Yorker, 17 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 5 Nov 2024