Associations to the word «Machination»

Wiktionary

MACHINATION, noun. A clever scheme or artful plot, usually crafted for evil purposes.
MACHINATION, noun. The act of machinating or plotting.

Dictionary definition

MACHINATION, noun. A crafty and involved plot to achieve your (usually sinister) ends.

Wise words

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope