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Verb (used without object), : They connived to take over the business. ,The policeman connived at traffic violations. ,to connive at childlike exaggerations. From Dictionary.com.
Maduna appeared to have "connived" with the judge on the issue. From Wordnik.com. [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference
Camerer, said, however, that Maduna appeared to have "connived" with the judge on the issue. From Wordnik.com. [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference
Is repeal to be openly patronized, or only covertly connived at?. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 59, No. 363, January, 1846] Reference
"I have connived at nothing, Madame, and I know of no adventurer.". From Wordnik.com. [The Little Red Chimney Being the Love Story of a Candy Man] Reference
Pakistan has connived for decades to keep tensions high in Kashmir. From Wordnik.com. [Terror Tactics High Over The Himalayas] Reference
Nor is it forgotten how the French connived to take over Mexico in 1862. From Wordnik.com. [1968 the Year that Rocked the World]
Venalcadi was popular among the pirates, and they connived at his escape. From Wordnik.com. [Sea-Wolves of the Mediterranean] Reference
She believed they had connived together to enrich themselves at her expense. From Wordnik.com. [Hubert's Wife A Story for You] Reference
The magistrates connived at these irregular and riotous proceedings of the people. From Wordnik.com. [An Historical Account of the Rise and Progress of the Colonies of South Carolina and Georgia, Volume 2] Reference
"You mean that this man connived with the contractors to misappropriate state property?". From Wordnik.com. [The Henchman] Reference
His quaestor proved terrifically loyal, and connived at everything Lucullus wanted to do. From Wordnik.com. [The First Man in Rome]
He had connived at — he had actually contrived — the escape of a deserter, of a criminal. From Wordnik.com. [Hornblower And The Hotspur]
The company asserts that the four traders, who've since quit, connived without the firm's knowledge. From Wordnik.com. [One Bluff Too Many] Reference
"Do you mean to imply, Lucius Marcius, that I connived at it?" asked Antonius Orator in a dangerous voice. From Wordnik.com. [The Grass Crown]
Other accomplishments might more easily be connived at, but the talents of a great general were truly imperial. From Wordnik.com. [The Germany and the Agricola of Tacitus] Reference
'But you don't think, do you,' Archie said doubtfully, 'that Ellis's lawyers connived at the hate-Halley campaign?'. From Wordnik.com. [Come To Grief]
What of your second-rate Press and its pin-pricking policy, connived at, if not actually encouraged, by your Government?. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 158, 192-06-30] Reference
Lord Baltimore was charged with having connived at these evasions, and with obstructing the collection of the royal revenue. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 33, July, 1860] Reference
These things the captain connived at, and the men were only too glad of the relief to inquire too curiously into his reasons. From Wordnik.com. [Stories by English Authors: the Sea] Reference
The man who encouraged, or connived at, the lesser crime, could scarcely expect to prevent the perpetration of the greater and the. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 55, No. 343, May 1844] Reference
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