0 the act of conniving, especially by knowing that something bad is happening and allowing it to continue: --
To what extent has there been some connivance, even some collusion?
There might even be connivance and collusion in the entertainment.
Talk of connivance and conspiracy stretches our credulity to breaking point.
This was a serious and shocking case, and there was evidence of long-established local malpractices and management connivance.
It is also an inescapable fact that sanctions, with the active connivance of certain countries which pay lip service to them, are easily evaded.
Registers, containing information on the number of young men liable for conscription, occasionally even fell victim to arson attacks, often, one suspects, with the connivance of local officials.
Sackville's narrative elicits a reader's connivance in his attitude of undiplomatic impatience and self mockery.
However, state-controlled marketing institutions faced fierce competition (especially in the case of beans) from parallel market traders, who operated mostly at night and with the connivance of government officials.
