How to Use conspiratorial in a Sentence

conspiratorial

adjective

• She gave me a conspiratorial smile across the table.
• His voice became low and conspiratorial.
• Kai tapped the side of his head and gave me a conspiratorial smirk—this was some kind of secret weapon.
  — William Finnegan, The New Yorker, 23 May 2022
• So there's like a silliness to them and kind of this dark secret conspiratorial aspect to them.
  — Gerrad Hall, EW.com, 21 June 2022
• Yet there are true conspiratorial forces at play in the story.
  — Dallas News, 18 Jan. 2022
• But the staff person waved them in with a little conspiratorial shhh.
  — Hazlitt, 13 June 2022
• In the spring of 2013, conspiratorial beliefs were taking hold across the country.
  — Amanda J. Crawford, BostonGlobe.com, 17 Aug. 2022
• With a conspiratorial whisper and a wealth of research, Hageman leads us through the false leads and final strange twist of the case that haunted Hollywood for decades.
  — Vulture Editors, Vulture, 6 Aug. 2021
• Hurley—or Snook, as he is known among friends—sounds conspiratorial, warm, jovial, and gorgeous.
  — Amanda Petrusich, The New Yorker, 26 Nov. 2021
• Which is to say that the conspiratorial air is distinctly racial.
  — Nicholas Quah, Vulture, 13 May 2021
• Even on the newsier side, the conspiratorial mindset took over.
  — Alex Shephard, The New Republic, 22 July 2022
• That can be and sometimes is understood by people on the left in conspiratorial ways.
  — Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 7 Nov. 2023
• The first time Waller-Bridge interrupts her own dialog to shoot a disarming, conspiratorial glance to the screen, you're hooked.
  — WIRED, 16 Jan. 2023
• The post may have sounded conspiratorial, but at least part of what West said was true: his ex-wife was in a new relationship that made for good television.
  — M. J. Corey, The New Yorker, 27 Aug. 2022
• Which meant that one of the NBA’s biggest stars — one known for being receptive to conspiratorial beliefs — would be under heavy pressure to get a shot.
  — Matt Sullivan, Rolling Stone, 26 Sep. 2021
• The region was a breeding ground for the John Birch Society, a conspiratorial anti-communist group in the ’60s.
  — Washington Post, 29 June 2021
• Some of them are troubling, such as the conspiratorial prejudice that has fuelled QAnon and the recent surge in violence against those of Asian descent.
  — Matt Alt, The New Yorker, 18 June 2021
• Once again, however, in the right-leaning group, some anger was linked to false, conspiratorial claims about the killings being staged as part of a larger Democratic agenda.
  — Lila MacLellan, Quartz, 28 June 2022
• After Langenkamp was killed, some people online took note of her work in Ukraine and raised questions of a conspiratorial nature.
  — Theresa Vargas, Washington Post, 31 Aug. 2022
• As the network's ranks of reporters shrank and conspiratorial ranters grew, Wallace decided not to re-up his contract.
  — Brian Stelter, CNN, 16 Dec. 2021
• Are the people on the far left swinging far right because they’re attracted to conspiratorial thinking about Covid?
  — Kate Knibbs, WIRED, 7 Sep. 2023
• Those existing networks helped to turn Stop the Steal into a force multiplier for the conspiratorial movements that would go on to storm the Capitol.
  — Hannah Allam, Anchorage Daily News, 3 Jan. 2023
• The people who did know were conspiratorial and would often choose to protect their own families.
  — Brian Davids, The Hollywood Reporter, 11 Jan. 2022
• There was something conspiratorial in the way Seif spoke those cynical words.
  — New York Times, 30 July 2021
• Burke continued to speak about the virus in conspiratorial terms in a sermon at his church in Wisconsin last December.
  — Caitlin O'Kane, CBS News, 17 Aug. 2021
• Some of them pushed years of Benghazi inquiries to pursue unfounded and conspiratorial claims in a bid to damage Hillary Clinton’s electoral chances in 2016.
  — Matt Ford, The New Republic, 20 May 2021
• Pressure was mounting in the wake of Ye’s conspiratorial antisemitic remarks, and the walls were closing in on him as more and more celebrities and other public figures spoke out.
  — Time, 27 Oct. 2022
• Was this component of force part of this conspiratorial agreement or plan?
  — Martin Finucane, BostonGlobe.com, 29 June 2022
• That, in turn, led to her focus on conspiratorial thinking.
  — Los Angeles Times, 2 Apr. 2021
• With haters galore and careers to lose, the non-superstar class of unvaxxed athletes has struggled to emerge from the shadows of wishful texting and conspiratorial DMs.
  — Matt Sullivan, Rolling Stone, 22 Jan. 2022

Last Updated: 28 May 2024