conspiratorial
adjective
con·spir·a·to·ri·al
kən-ˌspir-ə-ˈtȯr-ē-əl 
: of, relating to, or suggestive of a conspiracy
Examples of conspiratorial in a Sentence
She gave me a conspiratorial smile across the table.
His voice became low and conspiratorial.
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Lower-name conspiratorial Jew-haters sometimes find their way onto the nation's most popular podcasts.
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Josh Hammer, MSNBC Newsweek, 10 Oct. 2025
Then if your tastes skew toward current events, there’s a conspiratorial bent to Ron’s quest that, in a worst-case scenario, could end up with the father of two on a government watch list.
—Ben Travers, IndieWire, 9 Oct. 2025
Advertisement The network also quickly ran afoul of Robert Welch, founder of the conspiratorial right-wing anticommunist John Birch Society.
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In the past several years, Edge had filed a string of civil lawsuits with rambling, sometimes conspiratorial claims.
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Josh Hammer, MSNBC Newsweek, 10 Oct. 2025
Then if your tastes skew toward current events, there’s a conspiratorial bent to Ron’s quest that, in a worst-case scenario, could end up with the father of two on a government watch list.
—Ben Travers, IndieWire, 9 Oct. 2025
Advertisement The network also quickly ran afoul of Robert Welch, founder of the conspiratorial right-wing anticommunist John Birch Society.
—Time, 7 Oct. 2025
In the past several years, Edge had filed a string of civil lawsuits with rambling, sometimes conspiratorial claims.
—Zoe Sottile, CNN Money, 28 Sep. 2025
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“Conspiratorial.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/conspiratorial. Accessed 23 Oct. 2025.
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conspiratorial
adjective
con·spir·a·to·ri·al
kən-ˌspir-ə-ˈtōr-ē-əl
-ˈtȯr-
: of or relating to a conspiracy
Legal Definition
conspiratorial
adjective
con·spir·a·tor·i·al
kən-ˈspir-ə-ˈtōr-ē-əl
: of, relating to, or suggestive of a conspiracy
conspiratorially
adverb
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