conspiracist

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English

Etymology

From conspiracy +‎ -ist.

Noun

conspiracist (plural conspiracists)

  1. A person who puts forward a conspiracy theory.
    Synonym: conspiracy theorist
    • 2006 May 4, David Brooks, “The Paranoid Style”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
      Phillips's method is pretty conventional for conspiracists – he takes a single issue or set of data points and constructs an all-explaining story line to show how hidden cabals are controlling America.
    • 2020, Marcus Gilroy-Ware, After the Fact?, Repeater, →ISBN:
      As this business model developed, InfoWars’ shows, hosted by an array of conspiracists alongside Jones, such as British conspiracist Paul Joseph Watson, became increasingly punctuated by ad breaks and product placement, in a way that one journalist described as like “the QVC for racist uncles” (Lamoureux, 2017).

Adjective

conspiracist (comparative more conspiracist, superlative most conspiracist)

  1. Related to conspiracy theories.
    • 2020, Marcus Gilroy-Ware, After the Fact?, Repeater, →ISBN:
      The conspiracist worldview that presumes a wholly designed universe is similar, and with a conspiracy theory, the holder of the belief in some ways imagines themselves as the detective or investigator, []

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