Someone who has exceptional intellectual ability and originality

Usage examples of mastermind.

The boys begged to stay with Master Li and continue their lives of crime, but he advised them to remain in school and study hard so they could mastermind the mobs when they descended into depravity.

It was Gibbs who had masterminded the sale of the Shark, a World War II, Gato- class submarine, to the Chilean government, and arranged its modifications to look like the Barracuda, before sinking it in fifteen hundred fathoms of water.

But offhand, we have the mastermind, that one known gunslick, and at least two other gals, Maureen and French Barbara, unaccounted for.

Who is the Mastermind behind the use of the sea serpents in the invasion?

As many as eighty Basques died in a dirty war of kidnappings, torture, bombings and murder, all masterminded by their own government.

Whoever had masterminded these events, they were efficient, as were most of their kind.

David Grandstaff, who masterminded the largest single bank robbery in American history.

The trifle came out well, though the mmmmms were inevitably directed at MaryAnne, who--in all fairness--had masterminded the party.

Oval Office, or the deranged liberals who want my head because they think I was somehow the mastermind behind the Nader campaign, and that I .

Duncan Blackletter, like Doc one of the rare full-blooded Daoine Sidhe, had been a criminal mastermind on the fair world decades ago.

As a youth, Adorno had had a dream of establishing his own Conceptualist chapter in London's Earl's Court, marshaling his men with invisible dexterity, submitting his own projects to Conceptualist HQ, attracting the attention of the team's most hardened operatives, rising within the organization as an indispensable executive figure, being at last petitioned to mastermind all future Gestures.

He didn't see how he was going to eliminate anyone as the mastermind who'd almost surely done something to that Deputy Ida Weaver and been trying to do something to him ever since he'd talked to the deadly but not-too-bright little gal.

The florists and the candy-makers were told only that the lessee, Earl Gurney, was a white supremacist who was suspected of having masterminded violent antiblack and anti-gay activities in Detroit and Chicago.

Even though Unity's fought the narcotics traffic more effectively than any branch of government-well, could Tannahill be in it, could he have masterminded that assault?

It don't take a mastermind to dope out it was them two who did it.