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Definition of the day : « machination »

  • noun maneuver, plot
Example sentences :
  • The protest of the church was of no avail to defeat the machination of demagogues.
  • Extract from : « A History of American Christianity » by Leonard Woolsey Bacon
  • All MacTaggart's anger rose against madame for her machination.
  • Extract from : « Doom Castle » by Neil Munro
  • Disunion is at the bottom of this long-concealed Texas machination.
  • Extract from : « Thirty Years' View (Vol. II of 2) » by Thomas Hart Benton
  • It is pleasant to record that all this match-making and machination came to naught.
  • Extract from : « Child Life in Colonial Days » by Alice Morse Earle
  • It was not the machination or revenge of a disappointed suitor.
  • Extract from : « Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Volume 2, No. 12, May, 1851. » by Various
  • Paul got knowledge of their machination, and the christians took him, and let him down over the wall in a basket.
  • Extract from : « The Homilies of the Anglo-Saxon Church » by lfric
  • I felt at once that he had succeeded in some machination against me, and with ominous misgivings quickened my steps.
  • Extract from : « A Strange Story, Complete » by Edward Bulwer-Lytton
  • This was their machination, adding crime to crime, as it is said, "The last error shall be worse than the first."
  • Extract from : « Old English Chronicles » by Various
  • I should fear it was some machination of the Prince of —d——, who is determined on driving him from Venice.
  • Extract from : « The Ghost-Seer (or The Apparitionist), and Sport of Destiny » by Friedrich Schiller
  • His elevation to the presidency was the act of his fellow-citizens—not the machination of himself.
  • Extract from : « Thirty Years' View (Vol. II of 2) » by Thomas Hart Benton