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Counterplot

noun
1.
A plot intended to subvert another plot.  Synonym: counterplan.






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"Counterplot" Quotes from Famous Books



... not the faintest suspicion that anything of the sort had been going on. Don Juan himself had very quickly perceived the counterplot, and had found it a most amusing episode in the little drama with which he was beguiling the time during his ...
— Clare Avery - A Story of the Spanish Armada • Emily Sarah Holt

... open to Evan: to bribe her maid and to watch her letters. The maid, Josefa, was a light-headed creature perfectly willing to plot or counterplot with anybody. Unfortunately she was of very little use to Evan, because her mistress did not trust her in the least. As for the letters, it was scarcely likely that if Maud Deaves were carrying on a dangerous correspondence she would have the letters come openly to the house. Nevertheless Evan ...
— The Deaves Affair • Hulbert Footner



Words linked to "Counterplot" :   plot, secret plan, game



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