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Synonyms for conniving


Grammar : Verb
Spell : kuh-nahyv
Phonetic Transcription : kəˈnaɪv

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Définition of conniving

Origin :
  • 1783, present participle adjective from connive. Earlier in this sense was connivent.
  • verb plot, scheme
Example sentences :
  • We shall never cast out the devil while conniving at his crimes.
  • Extract from : « Broken Bread » by Thomas Champness
  • He was accused of conniving at the attempt of the king and queen to escape.
  • Extract from : « Lafayette » by Martha Foote Crow
  • It never struck him that he was conniving at fraud; if it had, he would not have been deterred.
  • Extract from : « The Mystery of Lincoln's Inn » by Robert Machray
  • She felt that she had been conniving in one of the spy-plots that all the Empire was talking about.
  • Extract from : « The Cup of Fury » by Rupert Hughes
  • This seems strikingly true in our conniving at the faults of our children.
  • Extract from : « Coelebs In Search of a Wife » by Hannah More
  • Do you know I could indict you for conspiracy and conniving at theft?'
  • Extract from : « Uncle Max » by Rosa Nouchette Carey
  • I cannot do this while she could feel I was conniving at what she might not like.
  • Extract from : « Beechcroft at Rockstone » by Charlotte M. Yonge
  • If some dozen of the conniving deputies had been sent there, Warden Tapp might have had less to extenuate.
  • Extract from : « The Incendiary » by W. A. (William Augustine) Leahy
  • It is in connection with this "accident" that the reader suspects the modest but resourceful Adair of conniving with Fate.
  • Extract from : « Pioneers of the Old Southwest » by Constance Lindsay Skinner
  • The law operated alike on conspiring employers and conniving employees.
  • Extract from : « The Armies of Labor » by Samuel P. Orth

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