Synonyms of plotted

plotted

verb

past tense of plot

as in schemed

to engage in a secret plan to accomplish evil or unlawful ends

mobsters were caught plotting to take over the company

Synonyms & Similar Words

• schemed
• planned
• conspired
• engineered
• connived
• intrigued
• contrived
• designed
• colluded
• manipulated
• hatched
• devised
• machinated
• concocted
• compassed
• mapped
• put up
• brewed
• maneuvered
• counterplotted
• cooked (up)
• shaped
• jockeyed
• framed
• laid out

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of plotted

Not a particularly easy watch, to say the least, the complexly plotted film leans into the madness, and intense brutality experienced by the characters. — Abid Rahman, HollywoodReporter, 13 July 2026

So Japanese engineers and scientists plotted out an operations plan that would extend over the next decade and visit two more asteroids. — Eric Berger, ArsTechnica, 6 July 2026

The fair's conferences were held at the Art Institute, and on the current site of La Rabida Hospital was a recreation of the La Rabida convent in Spain, where Columbus plotted his voyages. — Suzanne Le Mignot, CBS News, 27 June 2026

It was plotted, police said, because Arnold suspected that two of the three men were responsible for stealing his property. — Chuck Schilken, Los Angeles Times, 25 June 2026

By 1962, Jaray was making hard-edge abstract paintings that conjured architectural structures or details; delineated with masking tape and executed without visible brush strokes, they were carefully plotted out through multiple preliminary drawings, and in later years, on a computer. — Anne Doran, ARTnews.com, 25 June 2026

The agency said the attackers had allegedly plotted to use drones to cause explosions in buildings surrounding the event, force an evacuation toward a sniper team, and then breach the White House perimeters. — Molly Parks, The Washington Examiner, 22 June 2026

He was invited by Malcolm X to stay in Harlem at the famous Hotel Theresa, where agents with ties to the FBI, CIA and the Mafia, plotted to assassinate him. — Richard Johnson, New York Daily News, 21 June 2026

Eisenhower’s national security team subsequently plotted to overthrow no fewer than three different democracies on three different continents over the course of his eight years. — Ta-Nehisi Coates, Vanity Fair, 15 June 2026