Clever scheme or artful plot, usually crafted for evil purposes.
1 But they were no match for the grim machination thrown against them.
2 Ages of machination ... ' He lifted his hands to gesture about the empty room.
3 After centuries of manipulation and machination , the Dragon Court had won.
4 Honest and straightforward, what could he do against this far-reaching machination ?
5 Not to any man I knew could the machination , for a moment, be attributed.
6 The protest of the church was of no avail to defeat the machination of demagogues.
7 It was the day before yesterday, that I obtained the key of that dark machination .
8 She believes herself, like the daughters of Marshal Simon, the victim of an odious machination .
9 And if we would render ourselves proof against its machination , we must remove our weaknesses.
10 All MacTaggart's anger rose against madame for her machination .
11 What abominable machination might she not expect from the villain who had deliberately dishonored Pascal?
12 These observations are not made in a corner; there is no low intrigue; no secret machination .
13 What far-reaching machination was he so laboriously evolving?
14 No longer will a man come to be dictator by force or oratory, propaganda, or political machination .
15 In a flash of panic, Crane wondered if it was all a diabolical machination of Brent Taber's.
16 By constant machination and intrigue the king's revenues have been so depleted that ordinary debts are troublesome.
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