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machination
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synonyms: legerdemain, ~machiavelian, ~chicanery, ~covin, dupery, cautel, quiff ???
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Definition:a plot, scheme or maneuver; strategem;
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Blackadder: You made...Baldrick a Lord?
George: Well, yes. `One who has recently done sterling work, matching the political machinations of the evil Pitt' -- good ol' Lord Baldrick.
BBC. Blackadder, season 3: Dish and Dishonesty
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If God knew, when he created the serpent, that his machinations would bring "death and sin and all our woe" into the world, the act would prove him to be an unprincipled being.
Kersey and Lydia Graves. The Bible of Bibles (1879)
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GWENDOLEN. You have filled my tea with lumps of sugar, and though I asked most distinctly for bread and butter, you have given me cake. I am known for the gentleness of my disposition, and the extraordinary sweetness of my nature, but I warn you, Miss Cardew, you may go too far.
CECILY. [Rising.] To save my poor, innocent, trusting boy from the machinations of any other girl there are no lengths to which I would not go.
Oscar Wilde. The Importance of Being Earnest (1895)
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Gilbert lays bare his abominable machinations to has master Ashton
Gustave Flaubert. Madame Bovary
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in all my pathetic machinations
Vladimir Nabokov. Lolita
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