Crossword clues for counterplot
counterplot
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Counterplot \Coun`ter*plot"\ (koun`t?r-pl?t"), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Counterplotted; p. pr. & vb. n. Counterplotting.] To oppose, as another plot, by plotting; to attempt to frustrate, as a stratagem, by stratagem.
Every wile had proved abortive, every plot had been
counterplotted.
--De Quinsey.
Counterplot \Coun"ter*plot`\ (koun"t[~e]r-pl?t`), n.
A plot or artifice opposed to another.
--L'Estrange.
Wiktionary
n. A plot made in opposition to another; a counterploy. vb. (context intransitive transitive English) To form a plot or plan in opposition to the actions of another.
WordNet
n. a plot intended to subvert another plot [syn: counterplan]
v. make a plot in response to another plot
[also: counterplotting, counterplotted]
Wikipedia
Counterplot is a 1959 crime film directed by Kurt Neumann and written by Richard Blake. The film stars Forrest Tucker, Allison Hayes, Gerald Milton, Jackie Wayne, Richard Verney and Miguel Ángel Álvarez. The film was released in October 1959, by United Artists.
It was the final film directed by the German-born Neumann.
Usage examples of "counterplot".
There follow enormous ramifications, plots and counterplots, intrigues, triumphs and disasters, ending with the vindication of Robert, and wedding bells.
Her head swam with plots and counterplots as the jeep pulled up in front of the hacienda, where two guards in dress uniforms snapped to attention.
Circenn and my brothers, I doona see everything in terms of plots and counterplots.
The air is already so poisoned with rumors and doubts and stories about conspiracies and plots and counterplots.
Your plot has been known to both of us, all along, and you have been counterplotted all along.
But the unsought favor of the government was as much a check as an assistance to Piero's schemes, bringing him so frequently into requisition for official intrigues that he had less opportunity for counterplotting, while his knowledge of State secrets which he might not compromise, of the far-reaching vision of Inquisitorial eyes, and of the swift and relentless execution of those unknown _osservatori_ who had been unfaithful to their primal duty as spies, made him dare less where others were concerned than he would have foretold before he had been admitted to these unexpected official confidences.
Never in a million years of corporate scheming-with all his plotting, counterplotting, and preparation for every eventuality-could he have expected it would come to this.
In the midst of all the lies and half-truths, plots and counterplots, she needed someone she could trust.
There had been plots and counterplots, and a recall of the last members of the Long Parliament, and an end of the Long Parliament, and risings of the Royalists that were made too soon.