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con·spir·a·to·ri·al

 (kən-spîr′ə-tôr′ē-əl)
adj.
Of, relating to, or characteristic of conspirators or a conspiracy: a conspiratorial act; a conspiratorial smile.

con·spir′a·to′ri·al·ly adv.
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Adj.1.conspiratorial - relating to or characteristic of conspiracy or conspirators; "a conspiratorial whisper"; "the discovery of possible conspirative codes"
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Translations

conspiratorial

[kənˌspɪrəˈtɔːrɪəl] ADJde conspirador
Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

conspiratorial

[kənˌspɪrəˈtɔːriəl] adj
[behaviour, activity] → de conspirateur; [wink, whisper, smile] → de conspirateur
[group] → de conspirateurs
Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005

conspiratorial

adj, conspiratorially
adv
Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007

conspiratorial

[kənˌspɪrəˈtɔːrɪəl] adjcospiratorio/a
Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995
References in classic literature ?
With the naive conviction of young men in a merry mood that other men's wives were created for them, Rostov did not leave the lady's side and treated her husband in a friendly and conspiratorial style, as if, without speaking of it, they knew how capitally Nicholas and the lady would get on together.
When all were supplied, Mr Rugg rose, and silently holding out his glass at arm's length above the centre of the table, by that gesture invited the other three to add theirs, and to unite in a general conspiratorial clink.
While addressing the protesting journalists, the representatives of journalistic union said that voice of the depressed people in the shape of print and electronic media is being pressed under a pre-planned conspiracy and freedom of speech is being restricted adding they hoped that conspiratorial hands to be foiled.
Abdulsalam pointed out that Saudi Arabia aimed through organizing such exhibition, on the sidelines of its conspiratorial conferences, "to divert attention from its brutal crimes, which it can not cover even by one thousand exhibits." "You are the ones who ignited the aggression against Yemen, so stop your aggression and crimes and the response operations would be stopped," he said, addressing Saudis.
Berri expressed his dissatisfaction with the "rumors that have been pumped into social media platforms," adding that the climate is conspiratorial and that does not reflect the reality."
"Yet that conspiratorial scheme has failed and Syria has been able to remain steadfast and to restore its role again," Larijani added.
The internet is an agonistic medium driven by conflict and also one that creates powerful distortions of scale and in both of those respects, amplifies the conspiratorial tendency.
This assumption is based on both possible entering of emissaries and gunmen interested in the destabilization of the situation in the country and presence of deeply conspiratorial underground, Saginbayev noted.
'Our rivers have dried up on account of Indian conspiratorial strategy.
With his political career in danger, and no substantive punches left to throw, Fico is flailing about in an attempt convince people that all this alarm about the 'Ndrangheta mafia infiltrating his own office is the work of foreigners and George Soros.Out of ideas, again, and looking like an incompetent patsy of global organized crime, he has adopted conspiratorial tactics from neighboring Hungary, where Viktor Orban ironically a former recipient of a Soros scholarship to study in the UK has used anti-Soros campaigns to great effect in recent years.
The former UKIP leader called the accusations "conspiratorial nonsense".
The claims - made by the co-founder of the investigative firm behind the controversial "Trump dossier" into the US president's alleged links with Russia before he entered the White House - were dismissed by Mr Farage as "conspiratorial nonsense".