Definition of "deep-laid" [deep•-laid]

• Laid deeply; formed with cunning and sagacity; secretly and carefully planned. (adjective)

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• "What worried him was the wire-cutting; he could not but believe that it was an important part of the deep-laid labour conspiracy."
• "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.”"
• "– 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."