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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 city's celebration of its Super Bowl victory

Synonyms of connive

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

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

engineer, jockey, maneuver, manipulate

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

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