Connive

What do we mean by connive?

To cooperate secretly in an illegal or wrongful action; collude. intransitive verb

To scheme; plot. intransitive verb

To feign ignorance of or fail to take measures against a wrong, thus implying tacit encouragement or consent. intransitive verb

To wink.

Hence To wink, or refrain from looking, in a figurative sense, as at a culpable person or act; give aid or encouragement by silence or forbearance; conceal knowledge of a fault or wrong: followed by at (formerly sometimes with on).

To be in secret complicity; have a furtive or clandestine understanding: followed by with: as, to connive with one in a wrongful act.

To waive objection; act as if satisfied; acquiesce: used absolutely.

To tamper: followed by with.

To shut one's eyes to; wink at; tacitly permit.

In biology, to be connivent.

To shut the eyes to; to overlook; to pretend not to see. transitive verb

To open and close the eyes rapidly; to wink. intransitive verb

To close the eyes upon a fault; to wink (at); to fail or forbear by intention to discover an act; to permit a proceeding, as if not aware of it; -- usually followed by at. intransitive verb

To cooperate with others secretly in order to commit a crime; to collude verb

To plot or scheme verb

To pretend to be ignorant of something in order to escape blame verb

To be a wench verb

Encourage or assent to illegally or criminally verb

Form intrigues (for) in an underhand manner verb

Often followed by with: to secretly cooperate with another person or persons in order to commit a crime or other wrongdoing; to collude, to conspire.

Of parts of a plant: to be converging or in close contact; to be connivent.

Often followed by at: to pretend to be ignorant of something in order to escape blame; to ignore or overlook a fault deliberately.

To open and close the eyes rapidly; to wink.

To plot or plan or conspire. Also a back-stabbing person. Urban Dictionary

Somebody who connives, does annoying things. Many times a conniver will tell on someone, or threaten to tell on someone. Often in sixth grade. Urban Dictionary

Planning secretly, esp in doing sth wrong/ harmful Urban Dictionary

Someone who secretly makes plans behind her husband's back to leave him while pretending to attend counseling to reconcile the marriage. Urban Dictionary

A pack of 4-5 money hungry cunts who screw over someone any chance they get. Urban Dictionary

A bitch who connives; one who conspires Urban Dictionary

Someone who tries to talk shit on you behind your back, make situationions worse, and stirs the pot when issues are being brought up. Urban Dictionary

Plotting behind your back slutty woman Urban Dictionary

A female (or male) custody or divorce lawyer. More commonly female, unless not in the U.S. This term is commonly used for family court Judges, lawyers, feminist polticians and other parasites who think they are nobly serving society with their pompous attitude, when in fact they are robbing and oppressing the same society they claim that they are protecting. In most social circles of people who have been clients or stood before them, its quickly replacing "Your Honor" and "attorney" since its much more sppropriate and a direct translation of these types of people. Urban Dictionary

Top floor boss, The slimy-est of them all. Always scheming, he never misses and he never took an L. He always has Super Slimey album by Young thug and Future on repeat. Urban Dictionary

Words that are spelled similarly to connive:
connive, convive, connie.

Words that are triggered by (strongly associated with) the word connive:
way.

Words that rhyme with connive:
drive, dive, strive, live, thrive, derive, archive, revive, alive, five, jive, contrive, survive, arrive, deprive, hive, vive, chive, dr, shrive, beehive, swive, skive, overdrive, blive, clive, shive, nosedive, stive, come alive, slive, c5, test drive, hard drive, swan dive, m5, take five, take a dive, nose dive, crash dive, line drive, power dive, disc drive, sex drive, disk drive, swallow dive, automatic drive, sky dive, tape drive, winchester drive, cd drive, backhand drive, forehand drive, external drive, fluid drive, let drive, internal drive, clyve.

Adjectives that are often used to describe connive:
wise, figurative, first, last.

Consonant match to connive:
cain of, can of, cana of, cane of, kan of, kane of, ken of.

Words that sound like connive:
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