verb [V] (disapproving)
1 ~ at / in sth to seem to allow sth wrong to happen:
She knew that if she said nothing she would be conniving in an injustice.
2 ~ (with sb) (to do sth) to work together with sb to do sth wrong or illegal
SYNCONSPIRE:
The government was accused of having connived with the security forces to permit murder.
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for connive is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Does connive appear elsewhere on Lughet?
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