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conniving

[ kuh-nahy-ving ]

adjective

  1. cooperating secretly, especially with harmful or evil intent; conspiring:

    a conniving liar and thief.



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Word History and Origins

Origin of conniving1

First recorded in 1625–50; connive ( def ) + -ing 2( def )

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Example Sentences

He defeated what was left of the Tatars, mostly by conniving with leaders of what was left of the Tatars.

Why, then, are we led to believe that her conniving ways are so ineffectual and misdirected?

Fondly nicknamed “the Worst Boy In Town,” Penrod is conniving but not clever, wicked but rarely cruel.

A sexy, sexual, conniving, social-media mentioning, sexy baby spider!

Predictably, Harding was cast as a conniving, violent woman.

It has come to the notice of the Committee that many parents are conniving at the practice of having liquor at adolescent parties.

I fear the latter—He has ever kept too strict a course to admit his conniving at such licence.

If some dozen of the conniving deputies had been sent there, Warden Tapp might have had less to extenuate.

In the former event, if I remained silent, I should be conniving at a marriage which would make her miserable for life.

Leaflets ovate, glandless or glandular, with the serratures conniving.

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