Connive (verb)
kon-aiv
Secretly allow (something immoral, illegal, or harmful) to occur.
Conspire to do something immoral, illegal, or harmful.
Early 17th century: from French conniver or Latin connivere ‘shut the eyes (to)’, from con- ‘together’ + an unrecorded word related to nictare ‘to wink’.
Example sentences
“Ministers are well prepared to connive us into a bad deal.”
“She conniving and devious and shouldn’t be trusted.”
