Results for machination

Definitions of machination:

part of speech: noun

A plot or scheme formed for some evil purpose; an artful design.

part of speech: noun

A hostile plot; a scheme to do evil; an artful design or plot.

Usage examples for machination:

• As yet they could not say that it was he who had actually forged that famous 'absolute proof' of Dreyfus's guilt, which they knew to have been forged by some one, but that time would prove him guilty of some abominable machination was to them a foregone conclusion. "With Zola in England", Ernest Alfred Vizetelly