Synonyms for cabal
kəˈbælca·bal

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1. cabalnoun

   Synonyms:
   camarilla, conspiracy

2. cabalnoun

   To engage in the activities of a cabal

   The cabal is plotting to take over the world.

   Synonyms:
   camarilla, conspiracy

3. cabalnoun

   A secret plot.

   The cabal to destroy the building was foiled by federal agents.

   Synonyms:
   camarilla, conspiracy

4. cabalnoun

   An identifiable group within the tradition of Discordianism.

   Synonyms:
   conspiracy, camarilla

English Synonyms and AntonymsRate these synonyms:1.0 / 1 vote

1. cabal

   A conspiracy is a combination of persons for an evil purpose, or the act of so combining. Conspiracy is a distinct crime under common, and generally under statutory, law. A faction is more extensive than a conspiracy, less formal in organization, less definite in plan. Faction and its adjective, factious, have always an unfavorable sense. Cabal commonly denotes a conspiracy of leaders. A gang is a company of workmen all doing the same work under one leader; the word is used figuratively only of combinations which it is meant to stigmatize as rude and mercenary; crew is used in a closely similar sense. A conclave is secret, but of larger numbers, ordinarily, than a cabal, and may have honorable use; as, the conclave of cardinals.

   Synonyms:
   combination, conclave, confederacy, conspiracy, crew, faction, gang, junto

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1. cabal

   Synonyms:
   confederacy, conspiracy, combination, coterie, gang, faction, plot, junto, league

   Antonyms:
   parliament, legislation, council, government, empire, synod

Princeton's WordNetRate these synonyms:4.0 / 1 vote

1. cabal, faction, junto, camarillanoun

   a clique (often secret) that seeks power usually through intrigue

   Synonyms:
   sect, conspiracy, junto, faction, camarilla

2. conspiracy, cabalverb

   a plot to carry out some harmful or illegal act (especially a political plot)

   Synonyms:
   confederacy, conspiracy, junto, faction, camarilla

3. conspire, cabal, complot, conjure, machinateverb

   engage in plotting or enter into a conspiracy, swear together

   "They conspired to overthrow the government"

   Synonyms:
   raise, devise, bid, collude, bring up, press, beseech, prepare, stir, put forward, call down, arouse, conjure, evoke, call forth, machinate, complot, adjure, organize, get up, invoke, conspire, entreat, organise, conjure up

Matched Categories

1. • Clique

Dictionary of English SynonymesRate these synonyms:2.0 / 1 vote

1. cabalnoun

   Synonyms:
   CLIQUE, junto, COTERIE, set, party, gang, faction, combination, league, confederacy, CAMARILLA

2. cabalnoun

   Synonyms:
   intrigue, plot, COMPLOT, conspiracy, machination

3. cabalverb

   Synonyms:
   intrigue, plot, conspire

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1. List of paraphrases for "cabal":

   clique

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1. List of known nicknames for "Cabal":

   Cristóbal Toro

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How to use cabal in a sentence?

1. Samuel Alito:

   The catchy and sinister term ‘shadow docket’ has been used to portray the court as having been captured by a dangerous cabal that resorts to sneaky and improper methods to get its ways… This portrayal feeds unprecedented efforts to intimidate the court or damage it as an independent institution.

2. Mark Levin:

   They talk about the Squad. Thisis not a Squad, this is a cabal of Marxists whohate this country—some of them first, second-generation immigrants into the country, who bring their attitudes, who bring theirindoctrination into thecountry, and are at war, right there in the halls of Congress, against our owncountry.

3. Mark Levin:

   The media today, you can't even tell the difference between the media's positions and the Democratic Party's positions and the positions of these various Marxist movements in America that have been spawned from Marxism. There's not a dime's worth of difference between what is said on CNN and MSNBC in the pages of The New York Times and the so-called Squad, which is a cabal of Marxists.

4. Attorney General William Barr:

   The Maduro regime is awash in corruption and criminality, while the Venezuelan people suffer, this cabal lines their pockets with drug money, and the proceeds of their corruption. And this has to come to an end.

5. Edgar Mitchell:

   It's not just military. It's a cabal of organizations primarily for a profit motive.