One word

Machination

Word of the day on 14 July 2010.

Winning tweet

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JonPowles
I used to have a machination kit when I was a boy, but the schemes I built never turned out as good as the photo on the box

Good uses

  • nedmw
    64
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    The Machination Cemetery has a wide range of plots.
  • TiddK
    61
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    It is surely possible by machination to engineer a win at Artwiculate, but where's the creative joy in that?
  • SimoneWild
    50
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    With fascination I watched the machination at work, a plot a plan an incredible scam! a mastermind 3yr-old dodging his pram #artwiculate
  • Wifsie
    50
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    I tried everything to get into Hotel Machination but they managed to keep me out. #artwiculate
  • NeelaVanam
    48
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    A Widow watches as he enters.Her machination was to catch him with a bait.He falls for it.She devours him-She Spider. #artwiculate
  • navinsasikumar
    46
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    "Holy Machination Batman! I think our director is losing the plot!"
  • asim7asim
    45
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    Artwiculati(s) are busy with their machination today :) #artwiculate
  • mazpow
    45
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    You know nothing about machination until you've witnessed nine year old girls planning a sleepover.
  • Gardencomet
    44
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    The assassin found ever more cunning ways to stab people. They called him Machination The Knife
  • Tralala56
    43
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    RIP Lord Machination - Here in your last earthly plot you shall plot no more!
  • lawyergirl3
    43
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    If at first you don't succeed, try machination. #artwiculate
  • harrarp
    42
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    Machination. Like a wheel within a wheel.
  • marcosarroyos
    42
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    I'd much rather have mac 'n cheese than machination.
  • silverne
    41
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    Machination: this word smells steel. #artwiculate
  • Ysabeluna
    40
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    i yield // to love's machination // in the gazebo // of my imagination // i savor both bliss & frustration // #artwiculate #lqw #gogyohka
  • ale_bundy
    40
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    Machination met cahoots and they admired each others' ruse. #artwiculate
  • MaxRaunchiness
    39
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    A dowager with a $10 million inheritance doesn't qualify as a lonely dowager. Not when my machination gets started.
  • FrankSiddarta
    39
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    Wanted: Lover for my wasted days. Must be able to communicate in 140 characters. Must not know the meaning of the word machination.
  • Eridanus
    38
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    Machination: Death Metal band with insidious lyrics and a Machiavellian marketing strategy to manipulate iTombs ratings.
  • SJHatzi
    38
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    Machination? How Machiavellian.
  • infinitenano
    38
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    My machination / runs wild, held back only by / common sense and time. #artwiculate #haiku
  • PriWrites
    36
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    R.I.P. Machination course, overtaken by Mechanical Engineering. #artwiculate
  • Krafti_kit
    36
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    Machination Airlines: Only the pilot knows what evil lurks in the hearts of the crew. Mwahhhhh #artwiculate
  • OddlyStarry
    36
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    Avoid secret machination-s. They will be your undoing. And doughnuts. #horoscope or #fortunecookie
  • AaronLivingston
    35
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    S'il vous plaît laissez votre machinations à la porte #artwiculate
  • MaltaGoddess
    34
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    So many men, so little time. *Sigh.* (The only machination a woman needs, is but a smile. Well, a *special* smile.)
  • lagadu123
    34
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    Ethical shopping: a clever capitalist machination.‘Virtuous’ products are often candidates for the coveted Landfill Prize.
  • Squawkingalah
    33
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    Our first female prime minister is the direct result of machination. #artwiculate
  • PrernaMunshi
    33
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    "Marriage or Machination ?" After 15 years of the nuptial vows, she often thinks this! #artwiculate
  • DrJillZ
    33
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    @artwiculate Sellout special on machination, wile supplies last!
  • LBY3
    32
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    @Artwiculate Do not plan your machination in the gazebo; some things are better done behind closed doors. #Artwiculate #lqw
  • lexiconehead
    31
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    It was just my machination, runnin' away with me. It was jus' my machinay-ay-shunn, runnin' away with me (&my AAA battery)
  • i2Haiku
    31
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    Prenup: the machination vaccination #artwiculate
  • TheIowaTaxLady
    30
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    Imagination machination: When your brain connives to make you believe everyone is out to get you (unless, of course, they are) #artwiculate
  • osmarjardim
    30
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    72 points! Of course it was a Machiavellian machination: Transmogrify and shiFt happens.
  • ajeanne
    30
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    I'll see your machination & raise you one Machiavellian scheme.
  • ultracutebot
    29
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    'tho i may belong to a machine-nation does not mean i'm an expert of machination #QTbot
  • tWordBird
    29
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    The early bird has no time for nor thoughts of machination - she's too busy focusing on mastication.
  • DarkHaikuMoon
    29
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    In this pastel world ~ I could just paint the missing pieces ~ from the machination ~ of my complicated ~ dreams http://twitpic.com/253mu7
  • carolstett
    28
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    Darling children, I did *not* say use your machination. Please untie Mama now. #artwiculate
  • mwwise
    27
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    Your crafty machination is most seductive. How shall I ever resist?
  • ariandalen
    26
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    Somnus' machination has me meeting Morpheus at the most inopportune times.
  • Lomnoir
    26
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    A dues ex machination can correct an intractable situation.
  • raindropforsale
    26
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    her beauty / beckons / the moth / closer- /fatal embrace, / candle's machination. #micropoetry #artwiculate
  • RortlyGoblins
    26
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    My Dark Lord, the artwiculati are up to their usual machination - standing on the shoulders of others to vote. I've split their entries.
  • nimue_
    25
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    you gave me wings//to dream and soar high//then you clipped them rough//to see me fall and hurt//why this Machination #gogyohka #artwiculate
  • phoenixkc
    25
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    the machination to "upgrade our team" and thereby eliminate our friend has instead demoralized our team. #artwiculate
  • TidKid
    25
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    @artwiculate The word for today is: "machination". Mwahahahaha. Note, we got the definition correct. Why? We're not telling...

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