How to Use connive in a Sentence

connive

verb

• The confirmation that Lady Ochiba was more or less a prisoner in Edo shows just how conniving Toranaga can be.
  — Jesse Raub, Vulture, 19 Mar. 2024
• And the worst part of the whole story is that M.P.s are conniving in the rapid process of their own obsolescence.
  — Vanityfair.com, VanityFair.com, 19 Jan. 2017
• But his lie felt conniving, like a taste of his true nature.
  — Radhika Menon, ELLE, 15 Aug. 2023
• Julianne Moore is a countess conniving her way to the top!
  — Kirsty Hatcher, Peoplemag, 1 Feb. 2024
• Max and Leo connive to oversell a Broadway show to supporters, who won’t miss the money when the show fails.
  — Joanne Engelhardt, The Mercury News, 22 Mar. 2017
• But when Bran spoke, a look of shock and recognition came over the conniving Baelish’s face.
  — Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 29 Aug. 2017
• In the movie, Bradley would play a con man who teams up with an even-more-conniving psychiatrist to run scams.
  — Kayleigh Roberts, Marie Claire, 15 June 2019
• Bureaucrats, MPs and the police connive in this system, says Mr Hasan.
  — The Economist, 31 Oct. 2019
• Daemon is one of the most clever, cunning and conniving characters in House of the Dragon, who always seems to have the upper hand.
  — Skyler Trepel, Peoplemag, 28 July 2024
• Three-time Oscar-winner Streep has done some of the best work of her career as a grieving, conniving mother.
  — Hal Boedeker, orlandosentinel.com, 19 July 2019
• The only thing slicker than those conniving aliens is Thompson’s glossy hair.
  — Jennifer Ford, Essence, 20 June 2019
• In this quirky adaptation of the classic Roald Dahl adventure, James is sent by his conniving aunts to chop down their old fruit tree.
  — Shirley MacFarland, cleveland.com, 11 Feb. 2018
• As a conniving early-adopter, Clytemnestra had grim proof of concept that people will follow a red strip of textile.
  — Thomas Page, CNN, 25 May 2017
• Bliss has been the perfect women’s champion for all of a year now: conniving, mean, and absolutely brutal in the ring.
  — The Editors Of Gq, GQ, 6 Apr. 2018
• Scar gets a different vibe Scar has always been a tricky, conniving villain, prone to double-crossing friends and foes alike.
  — Raisa Bruner, Time, 17 July 2019
• The conniving French diplomat Talleyrand (Paul Rhys) is awful.
  — Justin Chang, Los Angeles Times, 22 Nov. 2023
• In both shows, Perry played Mike Kresteva, the cunning, conniving and lying politician and lawyer who would do anything to succeed.
  — Keith Langston, Peoplemag, 2 Nov. 2023
• Even their conniving delivery driver, Eve, can't figure out the recipe.
  — Kelsey Houston-Edwards, Scientific American, 1 Feb. 2024
• Even their conniving delivery driver, Eve, can't figure out the recipe.
  — Kelsey Houston-Edwards, Scientific American, 16 Jan. 2024
• In the movie, a down-on-his-luck race driver played by actor Dean Jones defends a Beetle from a conniving car dealer who is treating it abusively.
  — Spencer Jakab, WSJ, 6 May 2018
• After falling prey to the whims of a conniving fox demon and his own thirst for power, the king devolves into a brutal tyrant who incurs the very wrath of heaven for his misdeeds.
  — Patrick Brzeski, The Hollywood Reporter, 8 Sep. 2023
• McCarthy vamps it up as the conniving Ursula, going big but not too big — the one special effect that escapes the rest of the film’s soulless spectacle.
  — Tim Grierson, Vulture, 4 May 2024
• An evil lair for out-of-touch bureaucrats, striving and conniving politicos and entitled elites.
  — Joe Heim, Washington Post, 21 Dec. 2019
• The state connived to persuade these destitute young mothers to accept small workers’ compensation checks and give up their right to sue for damages.
  — Mark Oppenheimer, New York Times, 18 Aug. 2016
• But here the girls had settled, teasing and conniving and gigglingover a children’s game — one in which solitude is all but impossible.
  — Anne Branigin, Washington Post, 10 Aug. 2023
• Yet as the documentary about the hard-hitting TV newsman soon makes clear, those are the four words no crooked politician or conniving businessperson ever wanted to hear.
  — Scott Craven, azcentral, 6 Aug. 2019
• The White House today is a feuding, conniving band of officials vying for the affection of President Trump, who seems to encourage, even revel in, the chaos around him.
  — Dan Balz, Washington Post, 28 July 2017
• The rich and conniving Jewish bankers controlling money, politicians, and the media became the rich and conniving Zionists.
  — Daniel Foster, National Review, 30 Nov. 2023
• The freshest and most engaging thread follows the transformations not of Lear but of Edgar, the faithful son of Gloucester, who has been maligned by his conniving half-brother, Edmund.
  — David Yezzi, WSJ, 20 Apr. 2018
• Zane Phillips plays him like a golden retriever raised by Cruella De Vil — equal parts conniving and eager to please, with a surprisingly sweet center.
  — Angie Han, The Hollywood Reporter, 22 June 2023

Last Updated: 22 Dec 2024