How To Use Connive In A Sentence
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The student tried to connive with her friend to cheat in the examination.
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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.
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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..."
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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.
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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.
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I should have realized Belinda is too simple to deceive and connive.
Olivia
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Not to protest is to connive at the destruction of the environment.
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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?
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Adam bought it for me with the help of these two little connivers.
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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)
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Simply put, we have a mix of self-made men and women as well as political connivers and manipulators.
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Better yet, would be to condemn the heartless connivence of politicians in 'the international community who excuse the insanity of wildly uncontrolled mass-homicide, rained down on so many innocent brothers and sisters, at the very same moment that the individuals in command are being accused of crimes against humanity in the International Court in the Hague.
Condemn "International Community" Acquiescence During The Slaughter of Children
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For a person like me who is so used to downloading news to a computer and reading it at connivence it is difficult to follow what is going on the great Ames.
Archive 2005-05-01
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The government official connived with a criminal gang to smuggle goods.
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Together they connive in cahoots and scheme to create the world's worst musical, a guaranteed catastrophic dog of a show.
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That was my cover story, at least, sworn to secrecy as I was, on the awesome news of the Tähtivaeltaja Award -- and thereby sworn to secrecy also on the further awesomeness of Toni Jerrman and Hanna Hakkarainen who'd connived to bring this poverty-stricken writer over and put me up for a week, bless em.
Archive 2010-06-01
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Maduna appeared to have "connived" with the judge on the issue.
ANC Daily News Briefing
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These three were connived with this plot of dacoity.
Some press releases of the CPI(Maoist) Karnataka State Committee
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Burnett's much-loved character, conniver Verla Grubbs (last seen in 2005), is intent on getting her hooks into old flame Sam Brady (Jason Kincaid) and wants to make sure her rival Opal (Jill Larson) doesn't land him first.
First Look: Carol Burnett Returns to All My Children
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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..."
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Livia is the highborn conniver who facilitates both intrigues, and later falls for Bianca's lowborn husband, Leantio.
Theater review: Constellation Theatre's 'Women Beware Women'
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Elsewhere (i. 55-62) the 'horsy' youth is spoken of as worse than the husband who connives at his wife's dishonour and pockets the reward of her shame.
Post-Augustan Poetry From Seneca to Juvenal
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Remember, how Bedi "connived" with Hindi channels in 2005 to find out the Match the
The Times of India
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Instead, she has to be more subtle, a bit of a conniver.
Olivia
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If we connive, it makes no difference whether the torture has been outsourced or perpetrated close to home in Birmingham.
The Birmingham Six: Have we learned from our disgraceful past?
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In the alimentary canal are certain pointed eminences called villi, and certain ridges called valvuloe conniventes.
The Poet at the Breakfast-Table
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Critics charged, however, that the president connived at legislative changes, making it possible for him to run for a third term, a decision that was bad for democracy.
Juan Cole: The Corruption Game: What the Tunisian Revolution and WikiLeaks Tell Us about American Support for Corrupt Dictatorships in the Muslim World
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Diane Fletcher is Lady Macbeth to Urquhart's peerless conniver, and Michael Kitchen does a regal take on Prince Charles.
Some Candidates for Election-Week Viewing
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Each wants to win, and to do so they must connive and scheme.
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These dreams took shape in the foundation of a secret society -- the 'Philikì Hetairía' or 'League of Friends' -- which established itself at Odessa in 1814 with the connivence of the Russian police, and opened a campaign of propaganda in anticipation of an opportunity to strike.
The Balkans A History of Bulgaria—Serbia—Greece—Rumania—Turkey
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We should not connive at terrorism.
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Even as the threats of war loomed and grew more certain, Labor and the conservative parties connived in the emasculation of our fighting services.
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Based on Ben Mezrich's 2009 book The Accidental Billionaires, it portrays Zuckerberg as a borderline autistic, entirely ruthless conniver.
As Facebook Takes a Beating, a Brutal Movie Is Set to Make Things Much Worse
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Livia is the highborn conniver who facilitates both intrigues, and later falls for Bianca's lowborn husband, Leantio.
Theater review: Constellation Theatre's 'Women Beware Women'
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There is no place for anyone who condones it, conceals it or connives with it.
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Camerer, said, however, that Maduna appeared to have "connived" with the judge on the issue.
ANC Daily News Briefing
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Her brother is believed to have connived at her murder.
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Nor is it right for the Conservatives and the Liberal Democrats to connive with that purpose.
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Livia is the highborn conniver who facilitates both intrigues, and later falls for Bianca's lowborn husband, Leantio.
Theater review: Constellation Theatre's 'Women Beware Women'
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Her first stop is a connivence store where she picks up the better part of a six pack of Dogfish Head--proving that she has great taste-- using the change scraped together from her car's ashtray: proving she is completely unprepared for what has happened.
Turnstyle: [AFI Fest Review] The Dish & The Spoon
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If there happen to occur some Errata. .ye will. .either pass them over with connivency if they be literall or else taxe with some easie censure in case they be materiall.
Language Log
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Senior politicians connived to ensure that he was not released.
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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.
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He called for checks to discover whether corrupt officials are being bribed to connive in shoddy construction.
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He would not be the first politician to connive at a shady business deal.
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Who connived, plotted and planned for it to become law?
Think Progress » ThinkFast: March 12, 2010
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Two of his daughters connive and flatter him, while his youngest, Cordelia, refuses to put her affection to such a test.
Al Pacino Takes the Throne as ‘King Lear’ » MTV Movies Blog
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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.
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He would not be the first politician to connive at a shady business deal.
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He called for checks to discover whether corrupt officials are being bribed to connive in shoddy construction.
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Not sure what you mean by 'connive' as we have not been in government when these decisions were taken.
Rats jumping ship
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Further, far from finding myself compelled "to disregard or dismiss evidence of connivance by some British agencies or individuals in Cetnik collaboration with the Axis," I take care to note that the Cetniks as well as the Titoists ” with whom we also "connived" ” made tactical deals with the Axis.
Yugoslavia & the British
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Ad haec ludibria Deus connivet frequentur, ubi relicto verbo Dei, ad Satanam curritur, quales hi sunt, qui aquam lustralem, crucem, &c. lubricae fidei hominibus offerunt.
Anatomy of Melancholy
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If I may be so bold, sir, why are you helping out that little conniver?
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Not to protest is to connive at the destruction of the environment.
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Not to protest is to connive at the destruction of the environment.
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While Sean Parker is portrayed as a "high-flying but functionally homeless cocaine fiend who plies Zuckerberg with girls and venture capitalists," Zuckerberg receives the brunt of the film's black-comedic depiction and, according to Newsweek, comes off as a "borderline autistic, entirely ruthless conniver.
The Social Network Depicts Facebook CEO As 'Sex Maniac'
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Where I found Dylan to be a dry kind of character, Manson -- like any notable bad guy -- comes off as a charismatic conniver.
Rabid Reads: "Lucas Manson" by Thomas Hauck
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So far am I from forbidding these officially to check the undue license of kings, that if they connive at kings when they tyrannise and insult over the humbler of the people, I affirm that their dissimulation is not free from nefarious perfidy, because they fraudulently betray the liberty of the people, while knowing that, by the ordinance of God, they are its appointed guardians.
The Volokh Conspiracy » The Stamp Act
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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.
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Livia is the highborn conniver who facilitates both intrigues, and later falls for Bianca's lowborn husband, Leantio.
Theater review: Constellation Theatre's 'Women Beware Women'
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The accusation that the king aimed at increasing the royal prerogative or deliberately connived at secret influence will not bear scrutiny.
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As I said before, the conniver could not be trusted.
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Jim Norton plays Finian with Irish charm; his Finian is a lovable conniver blessed with a glint in his eye and an endless supply of quick-witted retorts.
Crazytown, Missitucky
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There are cries of how lawyers and others have allegedly connived in the misapplication of justice.
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The accusation that the king aimed at increasing the royal prerogative or deliberately connived at secret influence will not bear scrutiny.
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She says the men connived at their own obliteration from history, overwhelmed at learning of the deaths of Scott and the other members of the south pole party, for which any one of them could have been selected.
Scott of the Antarctic anniversary to focus on science, not the sideshow
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If the faultes and vices were fitt to be looked into and discover'd, let the persons be who they would that were guilty of them, they were sure to finde no connivence of favour from him.
Characters from 17th Century Histories and Chronicles
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The student tried to connive with her friend to cheat in the examination.
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Negligent parents leave their children with uncouth friends, relatives or even strangers, who in turn connive with witches to kill the children for money.
Uganda’s epidemic of child sacrifice
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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.
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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.
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This artifice, to which he is impelled by towering ambition, the serjeant seems disposed to connive at -- and the serjeant is a hero, and a great man in his way; "your hero always must be tall, you know.
The Works of William Hogarth: In a Series of Engravings With Descriptions, and a Comment on Their Moral Tendency
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This was not a minor breach of behaviour; it was murder connived at by agents of the State.
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Her brother is believed to have connived at her murder.
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The student tried to connive with her friend to cheat in the examination.
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If the Government had not connived, for purposes of its own, at the proceedings of what the French call the 'militarist' party, there would have been no turmoil at all.
With Zola in England
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The environmentalists have connived with the logging-to-prevent-fires scam for political reasons.
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He gets out of the fenced backyard, then connives to hide the evidence.
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The zealous friends of the church, as well as those who were enriched by confiscations, represented to the king that this state of things arose from the fact that the higher magistrates, themselves tainted with heresy, connived at its spread, and that the "presidial" judges abstained from employing the powers conferred by the edict, through fear of compromising themselves with the sovereign courts.
The Rise of the Hugenots, Vol. 1 (of 2)
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The extract inclosed, which is taken from an official publication of the Belgian Government, and the extract from an official statement by the Belgian Minister of War, prove that the Belgian Government had never connived, or been willing to connive, at the breach of the treaty that made the maintenance of Belgian neutrality an international obligation.
The New York Times Current History of the European War, Vol. 1, January 9, 1915 What Americans Say to Europe
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It doesn't really matter how materially privileged they are, they are still miserable and we connive at making them even unhappier.
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It's not about a clash of ideals - or God forbid - ideologies; it's becoming a contest to see who can connive to sucker in the largest number of voters with the most eye-catching wheezes.
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John XXIII connived to ensure that Czech reformer Jan Hus was burned at the stake—even as his own position became insecure.
How the Secular World Began
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He would not be the first politician to connive at a shady business deal.
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Married to a multimillionaire, she has hustled, harangued, conspired and connived to get Athens to the finish line.
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It was her the woman I had seen at the castle earlier, the one which I had believed to be an intruder, a conniver.
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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.
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The woman who loves him struggles and connives to find the evidence that will clear him.
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Senior politicians connived to ensure that he was not released.
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First he works for the Labour government and, by his own admission, connives in the government's systematic lying.
