connive
verb (used without object)
to cooperate secretly; conspire (often followed bywith ).
conniver
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a word derived from
connive.
Example Sentences
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But Lincoln’s bumbling successor, Andrew Johnson, brought the conniver back out.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 12, 2018
“How many moral lapses had I committed? How many ethical breaches had I fallen into? . . . Like many another financial conniver, I was in a short-term mode.”
From Washington Post ● Jan. 3, 2018
Cagney shines in "Blonde Crazy" as a cynical hotel bellhop, a part-time bootlegger and full-time conniver who feels he is living in "the age of chiselry" and wants to get his while the getting's good.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 28, 2016
He’s not a ruler, he’s a backroom conniver.
From The New Yorker ● Jun. 27, 2016
“They didn’t mean well. The older one is an unpleasant conniver like her mother and the younger one is a simpleton. It never entered their heads to mean well.”
From "Ella Enchanted" by Gail Carson Levine
