connive
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Verb
connives, 3rd person singular present; connived, past tense; connived, past participle; conniving, present participle;
/kəˈnīv/,
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connives, 3rd person singular present; connived, past tense; connived, past participle; conniving, present participle;
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Secretly allow (something considered immoral, illegal, wrong, or harmful) to occur
- - you have it in your power to connive at my escape
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Conspire to do something considered immoral, illegal, or harmful
- - the government had connived with security forces in permitting murder
Web Definitions:
- encourage or assent to illegally or criminally
- scheme: form intrigues (for) in an underhand manner
- (conniving) collusive: acting together in secret toward a fraudulent or illegal end
- (conniving) calculating: used of persons; "the most calculating and selfish men in the community"
- to cooperate with others secretly in order to commit a crime; to collude; to plot or scheme; to pretend to be ignorant of something in order to escape blame; to be a wench
- (conniving) That connives; conspiratorial
- (v.) to plot, scheme (She connived to get me to give up my plans to start up a new business.)
- (verb) - To scheme; plot; plan; work against
- To cooperate secretly in wrongdoing, plot, conspire