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Definition of Conniving
1. Adjective. Acting together in secret toward a fraudulent or illegal end.
2. Adjective. Used of persons. "The most calculating and selfish men in the community"
Similar to: Hard
Derivative terms: Calculate, Shrewdness
Definition of Conniving
1. Verb. (present participle of connive) ¹
2. Adjective. That connives; conspiratorial ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Conniving
1. connive [v] - See also: connive
Lexicographical Neighbors of Conniving
Literary usage of Conniving
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Harleian Miscellany; Or, A Collection of Scarce, Curious, and by William Oldys, John Malham (1810)
"The rigour of the Scotch government, their conniving and bribing; the lewdness
and debauchery of elders in secret. ..."
2. Forty Years Among the Indians: A True Yet Thrilling Narrative of the Author by Daniel Webster Jones (1890)
"I am Accused of Conniving with the Indians to Steal—My Arrest— Investigation and
Discharge—The Fate of Witches among the Natives—I Interfere to Prevent ..."
3. A Biographical Dictionary of Eminent Scotsmen by Robert Chambers, Thomas Thomson (1854)
"He is also as entirely relieved from the imputation of conniving in the imposture—an
accusation which has been insinuated against him—by the circumstance of ..."
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