deep-laid

ADJECTIVE
  1. secretly and carefully planned
    deep-laid plans
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How To Use deep-laid In A Sentence

  • Mirah's farewell look and words -- their exquisite appealingness stirring in him that deep-laid care for womanhood which had begun when his own lip was like a girl's -- her hold on his feeling had helped him to be blameless in word and deed under the difficult circumstances we know of. Daniel Deronda
  • Mr. Sulzer, a Democrat, called his trial “a farce, a political lynching, the consummation of a deep-laid political conspiracy to oust me from office.” Joining the Ousted Governors’ Club - The Lede Blog - NYTimes.com
  • It allowed him, and the scores of men like him who litigated over quarrels like this, to make use of deep-laid linguistic and cultural meanings of masculinity.
  • – Such is the foundation on which stands his pretensions to disinterestedness, which were only assumed to conceal the deep-laid projects of his ambition, and to deceive those whom he afterwards meant to enslave. Moniteur/Morning Chronicle
  • However, the Senhouses' deep-laid plans were decidedly at odds with the Lowthers' ambitions for Whitehaven, and as early as 1699 they were encouraging coal shipments from the Ellen to Dublin.
  • I recognise that it is sometimes easy when enmeshed in a dispute to attribute deep-laid cynical plans to the other party, but I do not think that that analysis is likely.
  • Unless he has some deep-laid scheme that I do not fathom, he isgiving up great advantages…. FORGE OF EMPIRES 1861-1871
  • Crucially, she does not inform us as to whether his leaving the gun and the wadding with his name on it was the consequence of panic or a deep-laid plan.
  • What worried him was the wire-cutting; he could not but believe that it was an important part of the deep-laid labour conspiracy. THE DREAM OF DEBS
  • Secondly, the deep-laid significance of the army's constitutional management is proved, and offers realistic authorities for the constitutional management of our army.
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