How to Use connive in a Sentence

connive

verb

• 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
• 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, 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
• 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
• At the center of this warped universe is Henshall, whose scheming and conniving ways are made endearing by actor Peter Story.
  — Mitchel Benson, sacbee, 6 Feb. 2018
• The jealous co-stars, frustrated crew and conniving producers are all suspects!
  — Daniel Fienberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 2 June 2017
• That’s just not so: Some people are better than other people, as far as virtue goes, and some are just conniving, self-interested [expletive].
  — Andrew Marzoni, New York Times, 4 Apr. 2023
• The real world, happily, is not as violent as Game of Thrones, not as conniving as Game of Thrones, but there are certainly some sinister characters in the real world as well.
  — Keli Goff, The Hollywood Reporter, 31 Mar. 2023

Last Updated: 27 Jun 2024