Reverse Dictionary: INTRIGUE

ADJECTIVES
► MACHIAVELLIAN preferring expediency to morality; practicing duplicity in statecraft or in general conduct; astute, cunning, intriguing → 1579
► MACHIAVELLIC ‘Machiavellian’ → 1838
► MACHIAVELLINE ‘Machiavellian’ → 1602 obs.

NOUNS
► CABAL a secret intrigue; a conspiracy; petty plotting → E17 arch.
– a secret meeting of intriguers → M17 arch.
► FACTION a factious quarrel or intrigue → 1593 obs.
► GALLANTRY an intrigue with one of the opposite sex → 1706-7 obs.
► MACHINATION the act or process of contriving or planning; contrivance, intrigue, plotting; an intrigue, plot, scheme → 1549
► PACK a private or clandestine arrangement, pact, or compact; a secret or underhand design agreed upon by two or more persons; a plot, conspiracy, intrigue → 1571 obs.
► RURITANIA a state or country seen as a setting for romantic adventure and intrigue; generally, any imaginary or hypothetical country → 1894

NOUNS – PERSON
► CABALIST ► CABBALIST one who cabals, or adheres to any cabal; a secret intriguer or plotter; a conspirator → 1642 obs.
► CABALLER one who cabals or intrigues; he that engages in close designs; one who enters into plots and intrigues to disturb and change the administration of any government; a conspirator → 1686
► MACHIAVEL ► MACHIVELL one who acts on the principles of Machiavelli (a celebrated Florence statesman who advocated the pursuit of statecraft at the expense of morality); an intriguer; an unscrupulous schemer → 1570
► MACHIAVELLIAN ► MACHIVILIAN one who follows Machiavelli’s principles in statecraft or in general conduct; an intriguer; an unscrupulous schemer → 1568
► MACHIAVELLIST ► MACHIVELIST one who follows Machiavelli’s principles in statecraft or in general conduct; an intriguer; an unscrupulous schemer → 1589
► MACHINATOR one who contrives or schemes; a contriver, intriguer, plotter, schemer; usually in a bad sense → 1611
► RURITANIAN a person associated with romantic adventure and intrigue → 1935

VERBS
► BRIGUE to intrigue; to solicit by underhand means → Sc.
► CABAL to combine together for some private end, usually derogatory; to intrigue against → L17
► CONNIVER to connive with in secret, to intrigue, to plot, to scheme → 1927 Amer. dial.
► CONNIVERATE to connive with in secret, to intrigue; to plot, to scheme → 1968 Amer. dial.
► FACTION to act in a factious or rebellious spirit; to intrigue; to mutiny → 1609 obs.
► MACHINATE to lay plots; to intrigue; to scheme; to contrive; to plot; to plan → 1600
► PACK to enter into a private arrangement; to agree in a secret or underhand design; to plot, to conspire, to scheme, to intrigue → a1529 obs.
► PULLHAUL to intrigue, to proselyte → Bk1913-17 Amer. dial.