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Examples of connive
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Kate found out later that he kept leaving the table to connive with the waitresses.
From the delawareonline.com
The other is to anticipate its tendency to connive, cheat and bring people to ruin.
From the suntimes.com
Lucy Lawless and John Hannah are back to connive as Lucretia and Batiatus.
From the orlandosentinel.com
Steal a man's woman or connive in a faraway nation's destiny at your peril.
From the time.com
It's frustrating that we ordinary people connive at the way predators enrich themselves.
From the guardian.co.uk
Whatever our specific functions, we cheerfully connive in promoting the medium and ourselves.
From the time.com
A team of slick political consultants arrives from the U.S. to connive against the incumbent.
From the time.com
Good will isn't enough, because people of ill will are perfectly willing to cheat, lie, and connive.
From the sfgate.com
Someone will break the rules and, as often as not, someone else will have reason to connive with them.
From the economist.com
- 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.)
- To cooperate secretly in wrongdoing, plot, conspire
