connive

How To Use connive In A Sentence

• The student tried to connive with her friend to cheat in the examination.
• 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.
• She will connive and she will lie and she will wheedle her way in as far as she can wheedle, further than you can imagine, until — — oh, I don't know — — she has the password to your SL account. "We think we've climbed so high, Up all the backs we've condemned..."
• 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.
• 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.
• I should have realized Belinda is too simple to deceive and connive. Olivia
• Not to protest is to connive at the destruction of the environment.
• As David Gardner, veteran Middle East correspondent for that communist rag the Financial Times: "If we continue to connive in the survival of tyranny, we abet the onward march of the jihadis for whom Western policy is their most consistently reliable ally. Johann Hari: We All Helped Suppress the Egyptians -- With Our Taxes. So How Do We Change?
• Adam bought it for me with the help of these two little connivers.
• Contrast that with the local hardware or corner connivence store -- most of which are family run and hire NO outside help whatsoever. Thank heaven (Jack Bog's Blog)