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Word of the Day – Connive

By November 16, 2018Word of the Day

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.”

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