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intrigue
/ˌɪnˈtɹiɡ/
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What does intrigue mean?
noun
- A complicated or clandestine plot or scheme intended to affect some purpose by secret artifice; conspiracy; stratagem; the practice of engaging in hidden schemes.
- Clandestine intercourse between persons; illicit intimacy; a liaison or affair.
- The plot of a play, poem or romance; the series of complications in which a writer involves their imaginary characters.
More meanings (5)
noun
- A desire to understand something; interest or fascination.
verb
- To conceive or carry out a secret plan intended to harm; to form a plot or scheme.
- To arouse the interest of; to fascinate.
- To have clandestine or illicit intercourse.
- To fill with artifice and duplicity; to complicate.
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IPA pronunciation
/ˌɪnˈtɹiɡ/
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See this word in context.
Every mere council of appointment, however constituted, will be a conclave, in which cabal and intrigue will have their full scope.
The Court, from that exclusive inner circle to its outermost rotten ring of intrigue, corruption, and dissimulation, was all gone together.
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Incapable ministers, the creatures of court intrigue, squandered in a few years the treasures which Sully's economy and Henry's frugality had amassed.
He frequented the gaming-tables while engaged in preparing his work upon religion, and carried on a disreputable intrigue while writing his ‘Adolphe.’
At the time of his death she was carrying on an intrigue with a bookseller's assistant, Leon Vitalis, a young man of twenty-one.