Definition of intrigue

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Intrigue (v. i.) A complicated plot or scheme intended to effect some purpose by secret artifice; conspiracy; stratagem.

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Intrigue :: Intrigue (v. i.) A secret and illicit love affair between two persons of different sexes; an amour; a liaison.
Jesuit :: Jesuit (n.) Fig.: A crafty person; an intriguer.
Cabal :: Cabal (n.) A number of persons united in some close design, usually to promote their private views and interests in church or state by intrigue; a secret association composed of a few designing persons; a junto..
Court-craft :: Court-craft (n.) The artifices, intrigues, and plottings, at courts..
Trinket :: Trinket (v. i.) To give trinkets; hence, to court favor; to intrigue..
Intrigue :: Intrigue (v. i.) To form a plot or scheme; to contrive to accomplish a purpose by secret artifice.
Node :: Node (n.) The knot, intrigue, or plot of a piece..
Backdoor :: Backdoor (a.) Acting from behind and in concealment; as, backdoor intrigues..
Politician :: Politician (n.) One primarily devoted to his own advancement in public office, or to the success of a political party; -- used in a depreciatory sense; one addicted or attached to politics as managed by parties (see Politics, 2); a schemer; an intriguer; as, a mere politician..
Gallantry :: Gallantry (n.) Civility or polite attention to ladies; in a bad sense, attention or courtesy designed to win criminal favors from a female; freedom of principle or practice with respect to female virtue; intrigue..
Intrigue :: Intrigue (v. i.) To carry on a secret and illicit love or amour.
Intrigue :: Intrigue (v. t.) To fill with artifice and duplicity; to complicate; to embarrass.
Wire-pulling :: Wire-pulling (n.) The act of pulling the wires, as of a puppet; hence, secret influence or management, especially in politics; intrigue..
Roorbach :: Roorbach (n.) A defamatory forgery or falsehood published for purposes of political intrigue.
Plot :: Plot (n.) Any scheme, stratagem, secret design, or plan, of a complicated nature, adapted to the accomplishment of some purpose, usually a treacherous and mischievous one; a conspiracy; an intrigue; as, the Rye-house Plot..
Negotiate :: Negotiate (v. i.) To intrigue; to scheme.
Amour :: Amour (n.) Love making; a love affair; usually, an unlawful connection in love; a love intrigue; an illicit love affair..
Interdeal :: Interdeal (v. i.) To intrigue.
Angle :: Angle (v. i.) To use some bait or artifice; to intrigue; to scheme; as, to angle for praise..
Brigue :: Brigue (n.) A cabal, intrigue, faction, contention, strife, or quarrel..
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