archconspirator

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English

Etymology

arch- +‎ conspirator

Noun

archconspirator (plural archconspirators)

  1. A chief conspirator.
    • Records and Briefs New York State Appellate Division (page 2890)
      And the third archconspirator--and this is the bad one--the real archconspirator, this is the one with the pencil-thin, waxed mustache
    • 2016, Timothy W. Bjorkman, Verne Sankey: America's First Public Enemy:
      The jurors listened carefully while Eidem portrayed Fern Sankey as an archconspirator who drove her husband into crime and was intimately involved in all major details of Charlie Boettcher's abduction.