connive
verb (used without object)
to cooperate secretly; conspire (often followed bywith ).
had connived
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past perfectof connive.past perfect
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
Example Sentences
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It all began with a truly terrible day for Rhaenyra, who early on learned that her father had died and that her former best friend had connived to steal the throne from her.
From New York Times ● Oct. 23, 2022
The report alleges that the head of finance of Malawi's police, Innocent Bottomani, and Mr Karim had "connived" to award Pioneer Investment a contract to provide 500,000 food ration packs.
From BBC ● Jul. 4, 2018
The commission suggested that the two countries had connived in the two firms’ manipulation of transfer prices, the notional amounts for which different subsidiaries of the same firm sell goods or services to one another.
From Economist ● Oct. 22, 2015
But it did know, and now made public, the identity of the four who had connived with Zabotin.
From Time Magazine Archive
He had connived at many a raid on his father's own preserves—to such a pitch had the quarrel grown between them—and kept our pot boiling with bird and beast.
From Lost Sir Massingberd, v. 1/2 A Romance of Real Life by James Payn
