conniving

How To Use conniving In A Sentence

• If this approach has a drawback, it is that the zealous pursuit of the founding principle—disinterring the buried life, stamped under the sod by conniving male partners—sometimes obscures the fact that not a great deal gets added to the wider cultural landscape it is bent on illuminating. A Far From Model Marriage
• Yet to that hideous place not fo confined By rigor unconniving, but that oft Leaving my dolorous prifon I enjoy Ltrge liberty to round this globe of earth, 365 The Works of the English Poets.: With Prefaces, Biographical and Critical
• The two were found to be conniving with an inter-state flesh trade gang, whose three members were arrested by the police last Friday.
• But many of the slights, misunderstandings and, yes, conniving, are typical of any bureaucracy, as officials pursue a range of different agendas.
• The general is accused of conniving in a plot to topple the government.
• His decade-long struggle to replace Blair as prime minister was never an open political contest, but a conniving, cowardly and petty bid for personal power.
• The result of all this conniving shadow-boxing by the media and celebrities, is the slow and steady dissipation of the resolve to take action; the outrage in the people against the perpetrators ebbs and disappears.
• And scarily, it is green activists who are conniving at the abuse and murder of rural Britain.
• The general is accused of conniving in a plot to topple the government.
• It didn't display any fiendish goblin or conniving fay, which disappointed me.