connive
verb (used without object)
to cooperate secretly; conspire (often followed bywith ).
had been conniving
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past perfect progressiveof connive.past perfect progressive
Used to describe an action that was ongoing continuously in the past up until another past event interrupted it.
Example Sentences
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Mrs. Bassett glanced at her husband with alert suspicion, thinking that perhaps in her absence he had been conniving to this end with Marian.
From A Hoosier Chronicle by F. C. (Frederick Coffay) Yohn
She felt that she had been conniving in one of the spy-plots that all the Empire was talking about.
From The Cup of Fury A Novel of Cities and Shipyards by Henry Raleigh
That in itself was bad enough, but it was made much worse by the knowledge that his beautiful cousin had been conniving at his escapade.
From A Cabinet Secret by Guy Newell Boothby
