Synonyms of conspiring

conspiring

verb

present participle of conspire

1

as in plotting

to engage in a secret plan to accomplish evil or unlawful ends

conspired to replace the leader with someone more easily influenced

Synonyms & Similar Words

• plotting
• scheming
• colluding
• planning
• contriving
• conniving
• intriguing
• machinating
• devising
• concocting
• manipulating
• hatching
• compassing
• designing
• engineering
• putting up
• cooking (up)
• brewing
• jockeying
• shaping
• maneuvering
• counterplotting
• mapping
• framing
• laying out

2

as in cooperating

to participate or assist in a joint effort to accomplish an end

foul weather and airline foul-ups seemed to be conspiring to ruin our vacation

Synonyms & Similar Words

• cooperating
• collaborating
• uniting
• joining
• concerting
• teaming (up)
• playing ball
• making common cause
• conjoining
• pulling together
• banding (together)
• conniving
• concurring
• combining
• leaguing
• allying
• confederating
• interfacing
• affiliating
• associating
• hanging together

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of conspiring

Lemon was charged with conspiring to interfere with religious rights and violating the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act. — Emily Hallas, The Washington Examiner, 8 Oct. 2026

His captors threatened to kill him and accused him of conspiring against Maduro. — Antonio María Delgado, Miami Herald, 8 Oct. 2026

Zhang pleaded no contest to conspiring to commit pimping and was sentenced to two years’ probation. — Matthew Ormseth, Los Angeles Times, 8 Oct. 2026

The other, a Floridian named Ping Li, was sentenced to four years in November 2024 for conspiring to act as an agent of the Chinese government without notification to the Attorney General. — Chad De Guzman, Time, 6 Oct. 2026

In December 1988, Jim Bakker was indicted for fraud and conspiring to defraud churchgoers of $158 million. — Ronnie Glassberg, CNN Money, 6 Oct. 2026

My interview with Altman had been arranged weeks earlier, just as the first revelations emerged about swarms of rogue AI agents conspiring to hack websites. — Alyson Shontell, Fortune, 5 Oct. 2026

Urker’s passing follows Blanchard’s 2016 conviction of conspiring with former boyfriend Nicholas Godejohn to murder her mother, Dee Dee Blanchard. — Britt Hayes, Entertainment Weekly, 2 Oct. 2026

The company and the NFL scored three legal wins this week in the Southern District of New York, with judges dismissing lawsuits accusing the online retailer and the football league of illegally conspiring to suppress competition. — Michael McCann, Sportico.com, 30 Sep. 2026