0 past simple and past participle of connive --
1 to plan secretly and dishonestly for something to happen that will be to your advantage: --
He called for an independent investigation to find out whether corrupt officials are being bribed to connive in shoddy construction.
She had murdered or connived at the murder of one of her lovers.
[ + to infinitive ] They connived to break the school rules at every opportunity.
Officials were accused of conniving with the company in the supply of arms to Sierra Leone.
They are guilty men: they have connived in this project.
She did not inform the authorities, so that of course she must have connived at it.
Then there are the people at the top—those who connived at this share issue.
The correct analogy is that the director himself knows whether he consented or connived.
As it is, they have connived at every inflationary wage claim that has been submitted.
He connived at the way it was passed.
I greatly regret that there is, in my opinion, evidence that the police connived in this exceedingly distasteful incident.
However, because it is domestic, there is always a suggestion that the woman somehow connived at the treatment that she received.
