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.
You have to call conniving, manipulative, evil women. From Wordnik.com. [Popular Posts Across MetaFilter] Reference
Commission was "conniving" in electoral fraud by allowing ANC members to wear uniforms at polling stations. From Wordnik.com. [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference
Chevron and Exxon-Mobil whom they accuse of "conniving" with the government to "loot" the riches in question. From Wordnik.com. [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference
#6 - NP | Prentice denies reports Canada 'conniving' on climate change. From Wordnik.com. [Comments for Jack's Newswatch] Reference
Nthai was allegedly recorded "conniving" with his opponents and attempted to solicit benefits for himself. From Wordnik.com. [Mail & Guardian Online] Reference
The Paa actress has recently signed up for the lead in Ishiqua, where she will play a "conniving" seductress. From Wordnik.com. [All - Digital Spy - Entertainment and Media News] Reference
When Prosecutor Valery Lakhtin told the court not to be fooled by the "conniving" defendant's ability to "act like a normal person,". From Wordnik.com. [StarTribune.com rss feed] Reference
China had reacted angrily on the Obama-Dalai Lama meeting by accusing the US of "seriously undermining" bilateral ties by "conniving" with separatist forces. From Wordnik.com. [Phayul Latest News] Reference
"If people think I'm being conniving, I am," she says. From Wordnik.com. [How to Train a Husband] Reference
Then they, must be punished for conniving at his outlawry. From Wordnik.com. [The Hunted Outlaw or, Donald Morrison, the Canadian Rob Roy] Reference
"Ah, I see you are conniving with her!" exclaimed the Prince, loudly. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
By none less than that conniving arch-fiend, John W. Campbell, Jr., that's who!. From Wordnik.com. [Despoilers of the Golden Empire] Reference
But we dislike a conniving victor who, even if talented, seems a creep or fraud. From Wordnik.com. [Ambitious to Fault] Reference
Administration of encouraging Miranda's preparations, or at least of conniving at the expedition. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 31, May, 1860] Reference
She expected him to pay for the cup and saucer, and chose not to mention she herself was conniving. From Wordnik.com. [The Golden Vault of Jean Maria Schwartz in Heaven] Reference
One of his sisters married a German, the English conniving at her escape from Zanzibar in a gunboat. From Wordnik.com. [Southern Arabia] Reference
Borla shifted his slyly conniving eyes innocuously back to Si'Wren's grieving, outraged countenance. From Wordnik.com. [Si'Wren of the Patriarchs] Reference
Lane played the schleppy, conniving Bialystock, and Broderick was a skinny, uptight accountant named Bloom. From Wordnik.com. [Laughing All the Way] Reference
Imagine how that played in Paris, where for decades conniving over EU leadership has been a national obsession. From Wordnik.com. [BRITAIN'S BIG TENT] Reference
"I'm smart, I'm conniving and if I didn't have an ego, I wouldn't be here," he admits in a thick Brooklyn accent. From Wordnik.com. [Survivor: Nicaragua's Battle of the Ages] Reference
In "American Dreamz," Mandy Moore plays a conniving contestant in a talent show that's a lot like "American Idol.". From Wordnik.com. [Newsmakers: Mandy Moore, Britney Spears] Reference
Now he and his party will be accused of conniving with the PRI to deny Lopez Obrador a shot at the nation's top office. From Wordnik.com. [PERISCOPE] Reference
With all its conniving, backstabbing and sexuality, reality TV may seem like a strange place for Mormons to congregate. From Wordnik.com. [America’s Next Top Mormon] Reference
As Austin went baby face, McMahon, appearing as a conniving Machiavellian in a suit, became his own most compelling heel. From Wordnik.com. [Stone Cold Crazy!] Reference
As his detractors tell it, Bolland is an eminence grise -- a postmodern Richelieu or Rasputin, conniving behind the throne. From Wordnik.com. [Meet The Wizard] Reference
"I'm not usually this evil and conniving, but I decided that this was the perfect opportunity to call him and give my notice.". From Wordnik.com. [All-Time Great Job Kiss-Offs] Reference
In particular, Linda Tripp is a character for the ages -- by turns nosy, shrewd, principled, conniving, cynical and moralistic. From Wordnik.com. [Clinton And The Intern] Reference
Making the process harder, teens have long been adept at lying, dissembling and otherwise conniving to hide their secret lives. From Wordnik.com. [The Secret Life Of Teens] Reference
Did the conniving Anne Marie undermine her friend in order to realize her lifelong fantasy -- to give birth on national television?. From Wordnik.com. [The View From The Garage] Reference
In past times, it had been with much weariness and not a little conniving that Conabar had played up to the endless demands of Master. From Wordnik.com. [Si'Wren of the Patriarchs] Reference
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