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machinationsnounpl. of machination a secret plan for accomplishing evil or unlawful endsincredibly complicated machinations to assassinate the president that inevitably failed conspiracies, designs, intrigues, plots, schemes counterconspiracies(or counter-conspiracies), counterplotsframe-upsmanipulations, subterfuges, trickeriesartifices, contrivances, cover-ups, dodges, drafts, maneuvers, stratagems, trickscabals, confederacies, ringsgames, gimmicks, racketsground plans, programs, strategies, systemscollusions, complicities, connivances, conspirations |