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deep-laid
[ deep-leyd ]
adjective
- carefully, cunningly, or secretly made:
a deep-laid plot.
deep-laid
adjective
- (of a plot or plan) carefully worked out and kept secret
Word History and Origins
Origin of deep-laid1
Example Sentences
It’s untidy to say so, but presidents use provocations or intelligence judgments to justify deep-laid policies they have already committed themselves to.
There may be almost infinite powers against us, but at least there is a deep-laid scheme working towards goodness and happiness.
Kung-Ming had always been noted for the fertility of his resources, and now he had evidently thought out a deep-laid scheme to involve his enemies in utter ruin.
Pride, delicacy, regard for his child, every consideration, forbade his exposing the duplicity of my mother; and, indeed, had he attempted it—it would but have confirmed the opinion, her deep-laid project had established.
Early in 1861, Mr. Felton had made, as he supposed, a remarkable discovery of "a deep-laid conspiracy to capture Washington and break up the Government."
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