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Connive   /kənˈaɪv/   Listen
Connive

verb
(past & past part. connived; pres. part. conniving)
1.
Encourage or assent to illegally or criminally.
2.
Form intrigues (for) in an underhand manner.  Synonyms: intrigue, scheme.



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"Connive" Quotes from Famous Books



... conceive what the Deuce she can want at this season in London. I have written to tell her that my Holidays commence on the 6th of August, but however, July the 1st is the proper day.—I beg that if you cannot find some means to keep her in the Country that you at least will connive at this deception which I can palliate, and then I shall be down in the country before she knows where I am. My reasons for this are, that I do not wish to be detained in Town so uncomfortably as I know I shall be if I remain with her; that ...
— The Works Of Lord Byron, Letters and Journals, Vol. 1 • Lord Byron, Edited by Rowland E. Prothero


Words linked to "Connive" :   connivance, assent, intrigue, connive at, accede, acquiesce, plot


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