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machinatingverbpresent participle of machinate to engage in a secret plan to accomplish evil or unlawful endsa trio of courtiers who were discovered to be machinating against the queen colluding, compassing, conniving, conspiring, contriving, intriguing, plotting, putting up, scheming counterplottingbrewing, concocting, cooking (up), devising, hatchingengineering, jockeying, maneuvering, manipulatingdesigning, framing, laying out, mapping, planning, shaping to plan out usually with subtle skill or carethe hackers machinated a way to steal credit numbers from the company's Web site contriving, engineering, finagling, finessing, framing, maneuvering, manipulating, masterminding, negotiating, wangling arranging, concerting, concluding, hammering out, working outangling (for), compassing, intriguing, plotting, schemingconnivingbrewing, concocting, cooking (up), hatchingcaptaining, commanding, conducting, directing, handling, managing, quarterbacking, runninggerrymandering blowing, bobbling, botching, bungling, butchering, flubbing, fumbling, gumming (up), lousing up, mangling, messing (up), mishandling, muffing |