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noun

Definition of connivingnext
as in connivance

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conniving

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verb

present participle of connive
1
as in winking
to secretly sympathize with or pretend ignorance of something improper or unlawful the principal connived at all the school absences that were recorded on the day of the city's celebration of its Super Bowl victory

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2
as in plotting
to engage in a secret plan to accomplish evil or unlawful ends suspects that his coworkers are conniving to get him fired

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  1. connivance
  2. winking
  3. collusion
  4. ignoring
  5. scheming
  6. complicity
  7. strategy
  8. ground plan
Noun
  • Of course, this was done with the connivance of politicians.
    Vera Bergengruen/Buenos Aires, TIME, 23 May 2024
  • Michael Hiltzik: How the GOP — with Democratic Party connivance — has undermined a crucial effort to avert the next pandemic.
    Jaweed Kaleem, Los Angeles Times, 2 May 2024
Definition of connivance
Verb
  • The show takes off from there, an hour and a half of glitzy group dance sequences, intimate ballads, and winking innuendos set in a two-story New York City penthouse.
    Lucy Feldman, TIME, 2 Oct. 2024
  • The wooden caps — winking to Venetian palazzos’ foundations — come in colors such as red, ecru and green, and are lined in cork.
    Jennifer Weil, WWD, 3 Sep. 2019
Definition of winking
Noun
  • This comes despite the fact that he was censured by the House for his lies and despite the fact that the whole Russian collusion story was completely debunked.
    Armstrong Williams, Baltimore Sun, 18 Nov. 2024
  • This dovetailed with one of the key political revelations of the ’70s: the litany of assassination and coup attempts in foreign nations instigated by the CIA, not to mention the FBI’s collusion in the murder of Black Panther leader Fred Hampton.
    Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 15 Oct. 2024
Definition of collusion
Verb
  • But all of them offer political ammunition to Republicans trying to cast the vice president as part of a failed administration that has left American consumers hobbled by years of high prices (while conveniently ignoring three-plus years of relentless job growth and consumer spending).
    Allison Morrow, CNN, 3 Oct. 2024
  • Unless investors have specifically allocated their money toward funds dedicated toward slashing emissions, ignoring crucial financial performance metrics violates the fiduciary responsibility of institutional investors.
    Wayne Winegarden, Forbes, 2 Oct. 2024
Definition of ignoring
Verb
  • And he's already noticed behind-the-scenes scheming from Bergmann and original Survivor winner Richard Hatch.
    Sydney Bucksbaum, EW.com, 16 Oct. 2024
  • Starkey's breakout role was as the angry, scheming older brother to Madelyn Cline in Netflix's Outer Banks, so joining the A24 film as the object of Craig's desire and obsession was certainly a big change.
    Julia Moore, People.com, 7 Oct. 2024
Definition of scheming
Noun
  • In August 2024, 13 months after Spradlin was stabbed at least 12 times, McKinney III, 24, was indicted on charges of murder and multiple counts of complicity to tampering with evidence.
    Tim Stelloh, NBC News, 25 Oct. 2024
  • Applebaum argues that Western democracies must reckon with their complicity in the spread of kleptocratic autocracy through offshore banking, money laundering, business deals, and ideological support from right-wing fellow travelers.
    Foreign Affairs, Foreign Affairs, 22 Oct. 2024
Definition of complicity
Noun
  • Simple strategies include: Allowing faster or more aggressive drivers to pass you.
    Glen Koen, Austin American-Statesman, 22 Nov. 2024
  • Gucci is leveraging her 27 years of experience in marketing and communication strategy.
    Luisa Zargani, WWD, 21 Nov. 2024
Definition of strategy
Noun
  • In this original usage, it was associated with concepts like designs, ground plans, and sketches—flat forms to be realized as physical structures.
    Leo Kim, WIRED, 5 Sep. 2023
  • The possible dichotomy between ground plan and volumetric form has never been more apparent to me.
    Martin Filler, The New York Review of Books, 22 May 2023
Definition of ground plan
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