0 past simple and past participle of connive
1 to plan secretly and dishonestly for something to happen that will be to your advantage:
Officials were accused of conniving with the company in the supply of arms to Sierra Leone.
[ + to infinitive ] They connived to break the school rules at every opportunity.
She had murdered or connived at the murder of one of her lovers.
He called for an independent investigation to find out whether corrupt officials are being bribed to connive in shoddy construction.
Lowther had all along connived at the old agreement, which in effect subsidized the trade in his coal.
Nor was this always done on a local, informal manner; in many instances, the record indicates that both secular and religious authorities connived in this practical, less than by-the-book practice.
That is an appalling prospect, and a hideous responsibility would descend on the shoulders of anyone who connived at or accepted such a proposal.
Those are documented atrocities that certainly brand those who have committed them or connived in them as war criminals.
Is he further aware that if anything of this kind were connived at surreptitiously, it would have a very bad effect indeed on public confidence?
But it was not a policy connived at through the back door.
In that way, too many connived in overmanning.
However, because it is domestic, there is always a suggestion that the woman somehow connived at the treatment that she received.
