Definition of connive in English:

connive

verb kəˈnʌɪvkəˈnaɪv

[no object]connive at/in

1Secretly allow (something immoral, illegal, or harmful) to occur.
默许；纵容
government officials were prepared to connive in impeding the course of justice
政府官员已准备默许阻碍司法进程。
Example sentencesExamples
- It featured some horrendous claims about anthropologists abusing a South American tribe and even conniving in their deaths from introduced diseases.
- I believe that most public servants like their jobs, believe that they're acting in the public interest, would not consciously assist in or connive in something that was clearly morally wrong, let alone criminal.
- The accusation that the king aimed at increasing the royal prerogative or deliberately connived at secret influence will not bear scrutiny.
- Even as the threats of war loomed and grew more certain, Labor and the conservative parties connived in the emasculation of our fighting services.
- But what was less explicable than this working-class defeatism was to hear those who regarded themselves as progressive liberals conniving in it.
- And scarily, it is green activists who are conniving at the abuse and murder of rural Britain.
- We have handed special advisers immense power by conniving in their attempts to manage the flow of news.
- None of these people want to be fingered for conniving in lying to the Australian people, let alone on a matter like this.
- This was not a minor breach of behaviour; it was murder connived at by agents of the State.
- Banks do not generally satisfy the ‘triggers terms’ of environmental legislation such as carrying on, causing, knowingly permitting, or consenting to and conniving in environmental damage.
- The volunteers themselves typically connived in the shift, since those who chose to go on the public payroll were grandfathered into the new municipal unions.
- Furthermore, even if people can prove that they have been persecuted, they must also prove that the state connived in that persecution at high level.
- But the time is long past for such absurd mythology, which has provided a perennial alibi for those who connived in the destruction of the mining industry.
- Some accuse the manufacturers and retailers of conniving in the premature death of old technology.
- Is it the dishonest claimants or those members of the professions who stand to gain so much and lose so little by conniving at their lack of scruple?
- I feel that those who portray an aggressive, vulgar, debased attitude towards life are conniving in that life, and I think publishers should reject them.
- As the next general election is now much closer, we should all be examining which political parties and politicians are fighting for Britain and which are conniving in the process of plunging us ever deeper into the EU.
- There are cries of how lawyers and others have allegedly connived in the misapplication of justice.
- This is an extraordinary state of affairs; an Act of Parliament is barely on the statute book before the Government brazenly connives at preventing it from taking effect.
- First he works for the Labour government and, by his own admission, connives in the government's systematic lying.
Synonyms
deliberately ignore, overlook, not take into consideration, disregard, pass over, gloss over, take no notice of, take no account of, make allowances for, turn a blind eye to, close/shut one's eyes to, wink at, blink at, excuse, pardon, forgive, condone, let someone off with, let go, let pass
look the other way
informal let something ride
1. 1.1usually connive to do something Conspire to do something immoral, illegal, or harmful.
  默许；纵容
  she connived with a senior official to rig the results of last year's election
  Example sentencesExamples
  Thoughts, erratic and conniving, in a word evil, ran through her mind.
  The woman who loves him struggles and connives to find the evidence that will clear him.
  And even worse, he may take the weekends to plan and conspire and connive and make sure that he isn't caught when he goes back on his shooting spree during the week.
  He gets out of the fenced backyard, then connives to hide the evidence.
  She was strict, manipulative, and conniving, but she was also generous with her abilities and caring.
  The two were found to be conniving with an inter-state flesh trade gang, whose three members were arrested by the police last Friday.
  He had allegedly used his influence to enable his wife and children to engage in illegal activities, accepted valuable gifts as bribes and connived with his two secretaries to commit crimes.
  Each wants to win, and to do so they must connive and scheme.
  In China, on-air conniving by reality-show contestants could be lost in the fog of political correctness.
  He said Government had received reports that the illegal trade involved foreigners who allegedly connived with the local authority for illegal issuance of timber licences.
  Married to a multimillionaire, she has hustled, harangued, conspired and connived to get Athens to the finish line.
  She's good at conniving and scheming and she knows it, no doubt she will twist the police against me.
  They are scheming and conniving and sometimes thoughtlessly cruel, too.
  Equally protean and conniving, she is his partner in crime and spirit.
  It was one of those rare smiles that had nothing behind it, nothing sinister, malicious or conniving, it was a true smile.
  The environmentalists have connived with the logging-to-prevent-fires scam for political reasons.
  There is no place for anyone who condones it, conceals it or connives with it.
  All the lies, deceit, conniving and games I endured while I was with him have made me frightened to date again.
  I don't really care about catching up on how my beloved soap characters have been scheming and conniving.
  I am fierce, powerful, ambitious, and if need be, conniving.
  Synonyms
  conspire, collude, be in collusion, collaborate, intrigue, be hand in glove, plot, participate in a conspiracy, scheme
  informal be in cahoots
  rare machinate, cabal, complot
  scheming, plotting, colluding, cunning, crafty, calculating, devious, designing, wily, sly, tricky, artful, guileful, slippery, slick
  manipulative, Machiavellian, unscrupulous, unprincipled, disingenuous
  duplicitous, deceitful, underhand, treacherous, Janus-faced
  informal foxy
  South African informal slim
  archaic subtle

Derivatives

conniver

noun kəˈnʌɪvəkəˈnaɪvər

Adam bought it for me with the help of these two little connivers.
Example sentencesExamples
- As I said before, the conniver could not be trusted.
- If I may be so bold, sir, why are you helping out that little conniver?
- It was her the woman I had seen at the castle earlier, the one which I had believed to be an intruder, a conniver.
- In flashbacks he is hampered with the unhappy task of being the innocent amid these connivers, but a stronger actor might have been able to make naïveté more interesting.

Origin

Early 17th century: from French conniver or Latin connivere 'shut the eyes (to)', from con- 'together' + an unrecorded word related to nictare 'to wink'.

When someone connives at something wrong, they turn a blind eye to it. The word comes from French conniver or Latin connivere meaning ‘to shut your eyes to something’. An early meaning of connivance (late 16th century) was ‘winking’.

Rhymes

alive, arrive, chive, Clive, contrive, deprive, dive, drive, five, gyve, hive, I've, jive, live, MI5, revive, rive, shrive, skive, strive, survive, swive, thrive

Definition of connive in US English:

connive

verbkəˈnīvkəˈnaɪv

[no object]connive at/in

1Secretly allow (something considered immoral, illegal, wrong, or harmful) to occur.
默许；纵容
you have it in your power to connive at my escape
Example sentencesExamples
- And scarily, it is green activists who are conniving at the abuse and murder of rural Britain.
- I believe that most public servants like their jobs, believe that they're acting in the public interest, would not consciously assist in or connive in something that was clearly morally wrong, let alone criminal.
- Some accuse the manufacturers and retailers of conniving in the premature death of old technology.
- We have handed special advisers immense power by conniving in their attempts to manage the flow of news.
- This is an extraordinary state of affairs; an Act of Parliament is barely on the statute book before the Government brazenly connives at preventing it from taking effect.
- This was not a minor breach of behaviour; it was murder connived at by agents of the State.
- First he works for the Labour government and, by his own admission, connives in the government's systematic lying.
- There are cries of how lawyers and others have allegedly connived in the misapplication of justice.
- The accusation that the king aimed at increasing the royal prerogative or deliberately connived at secret influence will not bear scrutiny.
- Is it the dishonest claimants or those members of the professions who stand to gain so much and lose so little by conniving at their lack of scruple?
- But the time is long past for such absurd mythology, which has provided a perennial alibi for those who connived in the destruction of the mining industry.
- The volunteers themselves typically connived in the shift, since those who chose to go on the public payroll were grandfathered into the new municipal unions.
- Even as the threats of war loomed and grew more certain, Labor and the conservative parties connived in the emasculation of our fighting services.
- Banks do not generally satisfy the ‘triggers terms’ of environmental legislation such as carrying on, causing, knowingly permitting, or consenting to and conniving in environmental damage.
- But what was less explicable than this working-class defeatism was to hear those who regarded themselves as progressive liberals conniving in it.
- I feel that those who portray an aggressive, vulgar, debased attitude towards life are conniving in that life, and I think publishers should reject them.
- As the next general election is now much closer, we should all be examining which political parties and politicians are fighting for Britain and which are conniving in the process of plunging us ever deeper into the EU.
- It featured some horrendous claims about anthropologists abusing a South American tribe and even conniving in their deaths from introduced diseases.
- Furthermore, even if people can prove that they have been persecuted, they must also prove that the state connived in that persecution at high level.
- None of these people want to be fingered for conniving in lying to the Australian people, let alone on a matter like this.
Synonyms
deliberately ignore, overlook, not take into consideration, disregard, pass over, gloss over, take no notice of, take no account of, make allowances for, turn a blind eye to, close one's eyes to, shut one's eyes to, wink at, blink at, excuse, pardon, forgive, condone, let someone off with, let go, let pass
1. 1.1usually connive to do something Conspire to do something considered immoral, illegal, or harmful.
  默许；纵容
  the government had connived with security forces in permitting murder
  政府已和安全部队暗中勾结默许谋杀。
  Example sentencesExamples
  I don't really care about catching up on how my beloved soap characters have been scheming and conniving.
  He gets out of the fenced backyard, then connives to hide the evidence.
  There is no place for anyone who condones it, conceals it or connives with it.
  The two were found to be conniving with an inter-state flesh trade gang, whose three members were arrested by the police last Friday.
  Thoughts, erratic and conniving, in a word evil, ran through her mind.
  They are scheming and conniving and sometimes thoughtlessly cruel, too.
  He said Government had received reports that the illegal trade involved foreigners who allegedly connived with the local authority for illegal issuance of timber licences.
  All the lies, deceit, conniving and games I endured while I was with him have made me frightened to date again.
  She's good at conniving and scheming and she knows it, no doubt she will twist the police against me.
  Equally protean and conniving, she is his partner in crime and spirit.
  I am fierce, powerful, ambitious, and if need be, conniving.
  She was strict, manipulative, and conniving, but she was also generous with her abilities and caring.
  In China, on-air conniving by reality-show contestants could be lost in the fog of political correctness.
  Each wants to win, and to do so they must connive and scheme.
  Married to a multimillionaire, she has hustled, harangued, conspired and connived to get Athens to the finish line.
  The environmentalists have connived with the logging-to-prevent-fires scam for political reasons.
  The woman who loves him struggles and connives to find the evidence that will clear him.
  He had allegedly used his influence to enable his wife and children to engage in illegal activities, accepted valuable gifts as bribes and connived with his two secretaries to commit crimes.
  It was one of those rare smiles that had nothing behind it, nothing sinister, malicious or conniving, it was a true smile.
  And even worse, he may take the weekends to plan and conspire and connive and make sure that he isn't caught when he goes back on his shooting spree during the week.
  Synonyms
  scheming, plotting, colluding, cunning, crafty, calculating, devious, designing, wily, sly, tricky, artful, guileful, slippery, slick
  conspire, collude, be in collusion, collaborate, intrigue, be hand in glove, plot, participate in a conspiracy, scheme

Origin

Early 17th century: from French conniver or Latin connivere ‘shut the eyes (to)’, from con- ‘together’ + an unrecorded word related to nictare ‘to wink’.

词汇	connive
释义	Definition of connive in English: connive verb kəˈnʌɪvkəˈnaɪv [no object]connive at/in 1Secretly allow (something immoral, illegal, or harmful) to occur. 默许；纵容 government officials were prepared to connive in impeding the course of justice 政府官员已准备默许阻碍司法进程。 Example sentencesExamples It featured some horrendous claims about anthropologists abusing a South American tribe and even conniving in their deaths from introduced diseases. I believe that most public servants like their jobs, believe that they're acting in the public interest, would not consciously assist in or connive in something that was clearly morally wrong, let alone criminal. The accusation that the king aimed at increasing the royal prerogative or deliberately connived at secret influence will not bear scrutiny. Even as the threats of war loomed and grew more certain, Labor and the conservative parties connived in the emasculation of our fighting services. But what was less explicable than this working-class defeatism was to hear those who regarded themselves as progressive liberals conniving in it. And scarily, it is green activists who are conniving at the abuse and murder of rural Britain. We have handed special advisers immense power by conniving in their attempts to manage the flow of news. None of these people want to be fingered for conniving in lying to the Australian people, let alone on a matter like this. This was not a minor breach of behaviour; it was murder connived at by agents of the State. Banks do not generally satisfy the ‘triggers terms’ of environmental legislation such as carrying on, causing, knowingly permitting, or consenting to and conniving in environmental damage. The volunteers themselves typically connived in the shift, since those who chose to go on the public payroll were grandfathered into the new municipal unions. Furthermore, even if people can prove that they have been persecuted, they must also prove that the state connived in that persecution at high level. But the time is long past for such absurd mythology, which has provided a perennial alibi for those who connived in the destruction of the mining industry. Some accuse the manufacturers and retailers of conniving in the premature death of old technology. Is it the dishonest claimants or those members of the professions who stand to gain so much and lose so little by conniving at their lack of scruple? I feel that those who portray an aggressive, vulgar, debased attitude towards life are conniving in that life, and I think publishers should reject them. As the next general election is now much closer, we should all be examining which political parties and politicians are fighting for Britain and which are conniving in the process of plunging us ever deeper into the EU. There are cries of how lawyers and others have allegedly connived in the misapplication of justice. This is an extraordinary state of affairs; an Act of Parliament is barely on the statute book before the Government brazenly connives at preventing it from taking effect. First he works for the Labour government and, by his own admission, connives in the government's systematic lying. Synonyms deliberately ignore, overlook, not take into consideration, disregard, pass over, gloss over, take no notice of, take no account of, make allowances for, turn a blind eye to, close/shut one's eyes to, wink at, blink at, excuse, pardon, forgive, condone, let someone off with, let go, let pass look the other way informal let something ride 1.1usually connive to do something Conspire to do something immoral, illegal, or harmful. 默许；纵容 she connived with a senior official to rig the results of last year's election Example sentencesExamples Thoughts, erratic and conniving, in a word evil, ran through her mind. The woman who loves him struggles and connives to find the evidence that will clear him. And even worse, he may take the weekends to plan and conspire and connive and make sure that he isn't caught when he goes back on his shooting spree during the week. He gets out of the fenced backyard, then connives to hide the evidence. She was strict, manipulative, and conniving, but she was also generous with her abilities and caring. The two were found to be conniving with an inter-state flesh trade gang, whose three members were arrested by the police last Friday. He had allegedly used his influence to enable his wife and children to engage in illegal activities, accepted valuable gifts as bribes and connived with his two secretaries to commit crimes. Each wants to win, and to do so they must connive and scheme. In China, on-air conniving by reality-show contestants could be lost in the fog of political correctness. He said Government had received reports that the illegal trade involved foreigners who allegedly connived with the local authority for illegal issuance of timber licences. Married to a multimillionaire, she has hustled, harangued, conspired and connived to get Athens to the finish line. She's good at conniving and scheming and she knows it, no doubt she will twist the police against me. They are scheming and conniving and sometimes thoughtlessly cruel, too. Equally protean and conniving, she is his partner in crime and spirit. It was one of those rare smiles that had nothing behind it, nothing sinister, malicious or conniving, it was a true smile. The environmentalists have connived with the logging-to-prevent-fires scam for political reasons. There is no place for anyone who condones it, conceals it or connives with it. All the lies, deceit, conniving and games I endured while I was with him have made me frightened to date again. I don't really care about catching up on how my beloved soap characters have been scheming and conniving. I am fierce, powerful, ambitious, and if need be, conniving. Synonyms conspire, collude, be in collusion, collaborate, intrigue, be hand in glove, plot, participate in a conspiracy, scheme informal be in cahoots rare machinate, cabal, complot scheming, plotting, colluding, cunning, crafty, calculating, devious, designing, wily, sly, tricky, artful, guileful, slippery, slick manipulative, Machiavellian, unscrupulous, unprincipled, disingenuous duplicitous, deceitful, underhand, treacherous, Janus-faced informal foxy South African informal slim archaic subtle Derivatives conniver noun kəˈnʌɪvəkəˈnaɪvər Adam bought it for me with the help of these two little connivers. Example sentencesExamples As I said before, the conniver could not be trusted. If I may be so bold, sir, why are you helping out that little conniver? It was her the woman I had seen at the castle earlier, the one which I had believed to be an intruder, a conniver. In flashbacks he is hampered with the unhappy task of being the innocent amid these connivers, but a stronger actor might have been able to make naïveté more interesting. Origin Early 17th century: from French conniver or Latin connivere 'shut the eyes (to)', from con- 'together' + an unrecorded word related to nictare 'to wink'. When someone connives at something wrong, they turn a blind eye to it. The word comes from French conniver or Latin connivere meaning ‘to shut your eyes to something’. An early meaning of connivance (late 16th century) was ‘winking’. Rhymes alive, arrive, chive, Clive, contrive, deprive, dive, drive, five, gyve, hive, I've, jive, live, MI5, revive, rive, shrive, skive, strive, survive, swive, thrive Definition of connive in US English: connive verbkəˈnīvkəˈnaɪv [no object]connive at/in 1Secretly allow (something considered immoral, illegal, wrong, or harmful) to occur. 默许；纵容 you have it in your power to connive at my escape Example sentencesExamples And scarily, it is green activists who are conniving at the abuse and murder of rural Britain. I believe that most public servants like their jobs, believe that they're acting in the public interest, would not consciously assist in or connive in something that was clearly morally wrong, let alone criminal. Some accuse the manufacturers and retailers of conniving in the premature death of old technology. We have handed special advisers immense power by conniving in their attempts to manage the flow of news. This is an extraordinary state of affairs; an Act of Parliament is barely on the statute book before the Government brazenly connives at preventing it from taking effect. This was not a minor breach of behaviour; it was murder connived at by agents of the State. First he works for the Labour government and, by his own admission, connives in the government's systematic lying. There are cries of how lawyers and others have allegedly connived in the misapplication of justice. The accusation that the king aimed at increasing the royal prerogative or deliberately connived at secret influence will not bear scrutiny. Is it the dishonest claimants or those members of the professions who stand to gain so much and lose so little by conniving at their lack of scruple? But the time is long past for such absurd mythology, which has provided a perennial alibi for those who connived in the destruction of the mining industry. The volunteers themselves typically connived in the shift, since those who chose to go on the public payroll were grandfathered into the new municipal unions. Even as the threats of war loomed and grew more certain, Labor and the conservative parties connived in the emasculation of our fighting services. Banks do not generally satisfy the ‘triggers terms’ of environmental legislation such as carrying on, causing, knowingly permitting, or consenting to and conniving in environmental damage. But what was less explicable than this working-class defeatism was to hear those who regarded themselves as progressive liberals conniving in it. I feel that those who portray an aggressive, vulgar, debased attitude towards life are conniving in that life, and I think publishers should reject them. As the next general election is now much closer, we should all be examining which political parties and politicians are fighting for Britain and which are conniving in the process of plunging us ever deeper into the EU. It featured some horrendous claims about anthropologists abusing a South American tribe and even conniving in their deaths from introduced diseases. Furthermore, even if people can prove that they have been persecuted, they must also prove that the state connived in that persecution at high level. None of these people want to be fingered for conniving in lying to the Australian people, let alone on a matter like this. Synonyms deliberately ignore, overlook, not take into consideration, disregard, pass over, gloss over, take no notice of, take no account of, make allowances for, turn a blind eye to, close one's eyes to, shut one's eyes to, wink at, blink at, excuse, pardon, forgive, condone, let someone off with, let go, let pass 1.1usually connive to do something Conspire to do something considered immoral, illegal, or harmful. 默许；纵容 the government had connived with security forces in permitting murder 政府已和安全部队暗中勾结默许谋杀。 Example sentencesExamples I don't really care about catching up on how my beloved soap characters have been scheming and conniving. He gets out of the fenced backyard, then connives to hide the evidence. There is no place for anyone who condones it, conceals it or connives with it. The two were found to be conniving with an inter-state flesh trade gang, whose three members were arrested by the police last Friday. Thoughts, erratic and conniving, in a word evil, ran through her mind. They are scheming and conniving and sometimes thoughtlessly cruel, too. He said Government had received reports that the illegal trade involved foreigners who allegedly connived with the local authority for illegal issuance of timber licences. All the lies, deceit, conniving and games I endured while I was with him have made me frightened to date again. She's good at conniving and scheming and she knows it, no doubt she will twist the police against me. Equally protean and conniving, she is his partner in crime and spirit. I am fierce, powerful, ambitious, and if need be, conniving. She was strict, manipulative, and conniving, but she was also generous with her abilities and caring. In China, on-air conniving by reality-show contestants could be lost in the fog of political correctness. Each wants to win, and to do so they must connive and scheme. Married to a multimillionaire, she has hustled, harangued, conspired and connived to get Athens to the finish line. The environmentalists have connived with the logging-to-prevent-fires scam for political reasons. The woman who loves him struggles and connives to find the evidence that will clear him. He had allegedly used his influence to enable his wife and children to engage in illegal activities, accepted valuable gifts as bribes and connived with his two secretaries to commit crimes. It was one of those rare smiles that had nothing behind it, nothing sinister, malicious or conniving, it was a true smile. And even worse, he may take the weekends to plan and conspire and connive and make sure that he isn't caught when he goes back on his shooting spree during the week. Synonyms scheming, plotting, colluding, cunning, crafty, calculating, devious, designing, wily, sly, tricky, artful, guileful, slippery, slick conspire, collude, be in collusion, collaborate, intrigue, be hand in glove, plot, participate in a conspiracy, scheme Origin Early 17th century: from French conniver or Latin connivere ‘shut the eyes (to)’, from con- ‘together’ + an unrecorded word related to nictare ‘to wink’.
随便看	shut shut away shut/close noisily shut/close with a bang shut/close with a crash shut/close with force shutdown shut down shut-down shut down (or shut something down) shut down (or shut something down) shutdowns shut-downs shute forceful forcefully forcefully forcefulness forcefulness forcefulnesses force hand force into force itself through force-land force-land