schemer

noun

Definition of schemernext
as in conspirator

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  1. conspirator
  2. plotter
  3. coconspirator
  4. traitor
Noun
  • The conspirators each face up to 27 years in prison if convicted, the DOJ said.
    Kevin Breuninger, CNBC, 12 Dec. 2024
  • Finding conspirators within the government and media Patel has expressed interest in giving the government leeway to crack down on officials who anonymously disclose sensitive information and the reporters who write about it.
    Andi Shae Napier, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 3 Dec. 2024
Definition of conspirator
Noun
  • The Brazilian army monitored the federal operation against the coup plotters, which was carried out in the states of Rio de Janeiro, Goias, Amazonas and the Federal District.
    Reuters, NBC News, 19 Nov. 2024
  • In Sword of Gideon, a 1986 Canadian telefilm, Steven Bauer plays a Mossad agent who hunts down the Black September plotters at the direction of Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir (Colleen Dewhurst).
    Seth Abramovitch, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Sep. 2019
Definition of plotter
Noun
  • In May, Nowlin’s coconspirator, Devin Alan Rhoden, 25, plead guilty to the same counts.
    Karen K. Ho, ARTnews.com, 5 Nov. 2024
  • According to the letter, Combs and a coconspirator kidnapped someone at gunpoint in 2011, and later set fire to another person’s convertible using a Molotov cocktail.
    Jem Aswad, ARTnews.com, 17 Sep. 2024
Definition of coconspirator
Noun
  • The remaining players will therefore have to rely on their instincts to know whether there is still a traitor left in the game.
    Max Goldbart, Deadline, 2 Jan. 2025
  • Dumitrescu The Treachery of Translation Three novels explore the idea of translators as traitors to themselves.
    Justin Salhani, The Dial, 19 Dec. 2024
Definition of traitor
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