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deep-laid

adj

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  1. secret and carefully planned.

    • Captain Cuttle, in the exercise of that surprising talent for deep-laid and unfathomable scheming, with which (as is not unusual in men of transparent simplicity) he sincerely believed himself to be endowed by nature, […]
    • 'Then why did you make every preparation—turn the Republics into armed camps—prepare deep-laid plans for the invasion of our Colonies?'
    • What worried him was the wire-cutting; he could not but believe that it was an important part of the deep-laid labour conspiracy.

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