Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Formed with elaborate artifice: as, a deep-laid plot.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Laid deeply; formed with cunning and sagacity; secretly and carefully planned.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective secretly and carefully planned
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Examples
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What worried him was the wire-cutting; he could not but believe that it was an important part of the deep-laid labour conspiracy.
THE DREAM OF DEBS 2010
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Mr. Sulzer, a Democrat, called his trial “a farce, a political lynching, the consummation of a deep-laid political conspiracy to oust me from office.”
Joining the Ousted Governors’ Club - The Lede Blog - NYTimes.com 2009
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– Such is the foundation on which stands his pretensions to disinterestedness, which were only assumed to conceal the deep-laid projects of his ambition, and to deceive those whom he afterwards meant to enslave.
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– Such is the foundation on which stands his pretensions to disinterestedness, which were only assumed to conceal the deep-laid projects of his ambition, and to deceive those whom he afterwards meant to enslave.
Newspapers 2007
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Mr. Sulzer, a Democrat, called his trial “a farce, a political lynching, the consummation of a deep-laid political conspiracy to oust me from office.”
Joining the Ousted Governors’ Club - The Lede Blog - NYTimes.com 2009
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Unless he has some deep-laid scheme that I do not fathom, he isgiving up great advantages….
FORGE OF EMPIRES 1861-1871 MICHAEL KNOX BERAN 2007
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Unless he has some deep-laid scheme that I do not fathom, he isgiving up great advantages….
FORGE OF EMPIRES 1861-1871 MICHAEL KNOX BERAN 2007
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Unless he has some deep-laid scheme that I do not fathom, he isgiving up great advantages….
FORGE OF EMPIRES 1861-1871 MICHAEL KNOX BERAN 2007
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Evangelista as they conversed with Paul, endeavoring to detect some clew to the deep-laid plot which was beginning to appear upon the surface.
A Marriage Contract 2007
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Unless he has some deep-laid scheme that I do not fathom, he isgiving up great advantages….
FORGE OF EMPIRES 1861-1871 MICHAEL KNOX BERAN 2007
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