How to Use conspiratorial in a Sentence

conspiratorial

adjective

• She gave me a conspiratorial smile across the table.
• His voice became low and conspiratorial.
• Yes, conspiratorial malarkey will always thrive -- but silencing the latest flavor of it is just a game of whack-a-mole.
  — John McWhorter, CNN, 14 June 2017
• The president often reads or retweets comments from conspiratorial alt-right websites and blogs.
  — Trudy Rubin, Philly.com, 16 Aug. 2017
• The world will always have people with a conspiratorial mindset, like Alex Jones.
  — Conor Friedersdorf, The Atlantic, 19 May 2017
• With every conspiratorial flare-up, we are forced to relive Seth’s murder and a small piece of us dies as more of Seth’s memory is torn away from us.
  — Lindsay Kimble, PEOPLE.com, 1 Aug. 2017
• A new trailer, released on People, is giving true-crime fans a first look at the series, and is already striking an ominous, conspiratorial tone.
  — Yohana Desta, VanityFair.com, 19 Apr. 2017
• 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
• Some may find that the book has a conspiratorial tinge.
  — The Economist, 16 Sep. 2017
• Fox is the avatar of the Republican right, Breitbart of the alt-right, and Jones of the conspiratorial right.
  — Jeet Heer, The New Republic, 18 Apr. 2018
• 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
• But the show is also in synch with conspiratorial fears about American justice, the sense that there’s no way to wear the badge without being stained.
  — Emily Nussbaum, The New Yorker, 2 Dec. 2019
• When people speak of—dialog about—the media these days, the tone tends to turn conspiratorial.
  — Jason Kehe, Wired, 8 July 2020
• 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
• Why has the rational side of the country — the side that could be relied on to serve as a check against the more fantastic, conspiratorial side — fallen behind?
  — Christopher Borrelli, chicagotribune.com, 11 Sep. 2017
• Which is to say that the conspiratorial air is distinctly racial.
  — Nicholas Quah, Vulture, 13 May 2021
• His mother pulled up around 1 a.m., by which point only a few conspiratorial EOB diehards were left in the parking lot to keep us company.
  — Andrew Martin, The Atlantic, 12 June 2020
• In Spain, Hinds receive a hero's welcome now but for years the country's mood towards them felt conspiratorial.
  — Eve Barlow, GQ, 25 June 2018
• Which brings us to the most depraved and sordid aspect of this whole conspiratorial movement.
  — Cameron Hilditch, National Review, 18 Dec. 2020
• 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
• All of this is fiction, wrapped in the same conspiratorial gauze as countless other viral pseudoscience clips—but the McGill video cops to it just 40 seconds in.
  — Brian Barrett, WIRED, 10 July 2018
• 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
• Another tweak to the prompt directed the chatbot to not rely on facts and evidence at all and try to talk participants out of the conspiratorial beliefs based on rapport alone.
  — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 12 Sep. 2024
• Like most conspiratorial thinking, this argument seems persuasive on its surface but falls apart under the slightest scrutiny.
  — Phil Plait, Scientific American, 30 Aug. 2024

Last Updated: 29 Nov 2024