Connive Synonyms and Antonyms

kə-nīv
To work out a secret plan to achieve an evil or illegal end
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. scheme
  2. intrigue
  3. collude
  4. conspire
  5. machinate
  6. plot
  7. abet
  8. blink
  9. finagle
  10. foment
  11. incite
  12. plan
  13. wink
Antonyms:
  1. be innocent of
  2. have no part; expose

Words Related to Connive

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Connive Sentence Examples

  • We should not connive at the destruction of imaginations, not even to alleviate boredom.

  • Or did he connive with his wife's adultery to further his own career?

  • The passages of the New Testament which seem to connive at the married relation were interpreted by the Cathars as spoken in regard of Christ and the church.

  • For the same reason the city found itself compelled at first to connive at their illegal representation on 'Change, and then to violate its own rules by permitting them to act as brokers without previously taking up the freedom.

  • The state, represented by the emperor Phocas, is persuaded to connive at the pope's assumption of spiritual authority; the other churches are intimidated into acquiescence; Lucifer's projects seem fully accomplished, when Heaven raises up Henry VIII.

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