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connive

verb

Synonyms and Antonyms of connive

1 to secretly sympathize with or pretend ignorance of something improper or unlawful

  • the principal connived at all the school absences that were recorded on the day of the cityʼs celebration of its Super Bowl victory
Synonyms of connive

wink
Words Related to connive

brush (aside or off), condone, disregard, excuse, forgive, gloss (over), gloze (over), ignore, overlook, pardon, pass over, shrug off, tolerate
Near Antonyms of connive

disapprove (of), frown (on or upon)

deny, disallow, refuse

2 to engage in a secret plan to accomplish evil or unlawful ends

  • suspects that his coworkers are conniving to get him fired
Synonyms of connive

collude, compass, conspire, contrive, intrigue, machinate, plot, put up, scheme
Words Related to connive

counterplot

brew, concoct, cook (up), devise, hatch

engineer, jockey, maneuver, manipulate

design, frame, lay out, map, plan, shape

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