A complicated or clandestine plot or scheme intended to effect some purpose by secret artifice; conspiracy; stratagem.
The plot of a play, poem or romance; the series of complications in which a writer involves their imaginary characters.
Clandestine intercourse between persons; illicit intimacy; a liaison or affair.
To have clandestine or illicit intercourse.
To conceive or carry out a secret plan intended to harm; to form a plot or scheme.
To fill with artifice and duplicity; to complicate.
To arouse the interest of; to fascinate.
The result or product of being sly.
The state or quality of being sly.