What's the difference between complot and conspiracy?
Complot
Definition:
(n.) A plotting together; a confederacy in some evil design; a conspiracy.
(v. t. & i.) To plot or plan together; to conspire; to join in a secret design.
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Conspiracy
Definition:
(n.) A combination of men for an evil purpose; an agreement, between two or more persons, to commit a crime in concert, as treason; a plot.
(n.) A concurence or general tendency, as of circumstances, to one event, as if by agreement.
(n.) An agreement, manifesting itself in words or deeds, by which two or more persons confederate to do an unlawful act, or to use unlawful to do an act which is lawful; confederacy.
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(1) September 11 conspiracies Facebook Twitter Pinterest September 11 conspiracy theories.
(2) It’s going to affect everybody.” The six songs from Rebel Heart released thus far do not shy away from controversy: one, Illuminati, mocks the various conspiracy theories on the internet that implicate a variety of entertainers – including Jay-Z and Lady Gaga – in membership of a shadowy ruling elite.
(3) Modern art was interpreted in the catalogue as a conspiracy by Russian Bolsheviks and Jewish dealers to destroy European culture.
(4) He received five years for one count of conspiracy and three years for two counts of filing a false tax return.
(5) Activists, who claim they are the enemies of patriarchy, dismiss allegations of sexual abuse as a CIA conspiracy.
(6) That's what I call a conspiracy between the prime minister and the press."
(7) Warner, a government minister in his country, suggested on Trinidadian television that the allegations were a conspiracy.
(8) GetUp’s conspiracy theories are a matter for them,” he said.
(9) – to either discuss [the new record], or even to sing any songs from [it].” Meanwhile, Morrissey conspiracy theorists have proposed another reason for the singer’s re-configured music deals: he is planning to bring back the Smiths.
(10) Channel 5's Val Kilmer action adventure film repeat Thirteen: Conspiracy, averaged 1 million viewers, a 5.5% share, rising to 1.1 million and 5.8% including Channel 5+1.
(11) As his supporters gathered to demonstrate in Puerta del Sol square in central Madrid on Thursday evening, many claimed there was a conspiracy to bring down one of the world's best-known human rights investigators.
(12) "Was there a conspiracy between Mulcaire and News Group Newspapers to intercept voicemail messages?
(13) He was charged with a range of offences including rape, murder, kidnapping, destruction of evidence, banditry and criminal conspiracy.
(14) Now, it's either a case of gross incompetence or, as I said yesterday, I've got an increasing feeling that it is actually a case of an international criminal conspiracy."
(15) They found nothing and she says she is not a conspiracy theorist.
(16) Sergei Udaltsov, the leader of the Left Front and a protest organiser, faces up to 10 years in prison after being charged with conspiracy to provoke mass unrest.
(17) Reader was previously jailed for a total of nine years for conspiracy to handle stolen goods and dishonestly handling cash, after the £26m robbery at the Brink’s-Mat warehouse near Heathrow airport in 1983.
(18) For now these private schools are protected, not just by the conspiracy of silence, but also by the law.
(19) US prosecutors wanted to charge Hayes on three counts of conspiracy to fraud, with each one carrying a 20 to 30-year sentence.
(20) In 1967, 18 men were prosecuted in a federal court on conspiracy charges relating to the case; seven were convicted but none served longer than six years.