Synonyms for covin
Grammar : Noun |
Top 10 synonyms for covin Other synonyms for the word covin
- angle
- artifice
- booby trap
- brainchild
- cabal
- collusion
- complicity
- complot
- confederacy
- connivance
- conniving
- contrivance
- countermine
- counterplot
- covin
- device
- disloyalty
- dodge
- fix
- frame
- frame-up
- game
- gimmick
- hookup
- hustle
- hype
- intrigue
- layout
- league
- little game
- machination
- perfidy
- picture
- pitch
- practice
- proposition
- put-up job
- ruse
- scene
- sedition
- setup
- shift
- story
- stratagem
- subterfuge
- tactics
- treacherousness
- treachery
- treason
- trick
- trickery
- twist
Définition of covin
- As in plot : noun plan, scheme
- As in scheme : noun plot, maneuver to get result
- As in conspiracy : noun collusion in plan
- Actions popular were not allowed to be eluded by fraud or covin.
- Extract from : « The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.I., Part C. » by David Hume
- So no more information was given of the spirits of the Covin.
- Extract from : « Witch Stories » by E. Lynn (Elizabeth Lynn) Linton
- You know as well as I do that the brakeman takes on five boxes of lunch at Covin.
- Extract from : « American Adventures » by Julian Street
- John Young was the officer of her covin, and the number composing it was thirteen.
- Extract from : « Witch Stories » by E. Lynn (Elizabeth Lynn) Linton
- Shall I, an innocent proprietor, be mulcted of my right by thy fraud and covin?
- Extract from : « The Twilight of the Gods, and Other Tales » by Richard Garnett
- There is thirteen persons in each Covin; and each of us has one Sprite to wait upon us, when we please to call upon him.
- Extract from : « Witch, Warlock, and Magician » by William Henry Davenport Adams
- I was standin' in the street with the crowd outside Covin' Garden, watchin' the swells go inter the operer.
- Extract from : « A Little Princess » by Frances Hodgson Burnett
- The devil gave them to his covin and they shot men and women dead, right and left.
- Extract from : « Witch Stories » by E. Lynn (Elizabeth Lynn) Linton
Antonyms for covin
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