Definition of Intrigue

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Intrigue

To form a plot or scheme; to contrive to accomplish a purpose by secret artifice.

To carry on a secret and illicit love or amour.

To fill with artifice and duplicity; to complicate; to embarrass.

Intricacy; complication.

A complicated plot or scheme intended to effect some purpose by secret artifice; conspiracy; stratagem.

The plot or romance; a complicated scheme of designs, actions, and events.

A secret and illicit love affair between two persons of different sexes; an amour; a liaison.

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Intrigue Quotations

I don't consider myself qualified to do a movie about international intrigue - I seldom leave the country.
John Hughes

Those who have wrought great changes in the world never succeeded by gaining over chiefs; but always by exciting the multitude. The first is the resource of intrigue and produces only secondary results, the second is the resort of genius and transforms the universe.
Martin Van Buren

Society bristles with enigmas which look hard to solve. It is a perfect maze of intrigue.
Honore de Balzac

It is not easy to find something that will intrigue and bind your interest and enthusiasm. This you must seek for yourself.
Walter Annenberg

Most people like to read about intrigue and spies. I hope to provide a metaphor for the average reader's daily life. Most of us live in a slightly conspiratorial relationship with our employer and perhaps with our marriage.
John Le Carre

My favorite subject probably was math. I love math. Figures just intrigue me. I was really good at math. English probably was my worst subject. But I used to write a lot of poetry. I used to write poetry all the time.
Herschel Walker

I came up with new leads for game stories by being observant and clever, by using the many gifts of the English language to intrigue and hook a reader.
Dick Schaap

They're getting me involved in intrigue again, and I think it follows a classic formula in a soap opera.
Michael Zaslow

Without bureaus, committees, officials or emissaries to manufacture sentiment in his favor, without intrigue or effort on his part, Grant is the candidate whose supporters have never threatened to bolt.
Roscoe Conkling

An ambassador is an honest man sent abroad to lie and intrigue for the benefit of his country.
Henry Wotton

Intrigue Translations

intrigue in Dutch is bekonkelen, intrigeren, konkelen
intrigue in Finnish is juonitella
intrigue in French is intriguer, micmac
intrigue in German is Intrige, intrigieren, Intriege
intrigue in Italian is intrigo, intrigare
intrigue in Norwegian is intrige, intrigering
intrigue in Spanish is intrigar, intriga

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