Antonyms for conniving
| Grammar : Verb |
| Spell : kuh-nahyv |
| Phonetic Transcription : kəˈnaɪv |
Definition of conniving
Origin :- 1783, present participle adjective from connive. Earlier in this sense was connivent.
- verb plot, scheme
- We shall never cast out the devil while conniving at his crimes.
- Extract from : « Broken Bread » by Thomas Champness
- He was accused of conniving at the attempt of the king and queen to escape.
- Extract from : « Lafayette » by Martha Foote Crow
- It never struck him that he was conniving at fraud; if it had, he would not have been deterred.
- Extract from : « The Mystery of Lincoln's Inn » by Robert Machray
- She felt that she had been conniving in one of the spy-plots that all the Empire was talking about.
- Extract from : « The Cup of Fury » by Rupert Hughes
- This seems strikingly true in our conniving at the faults of our children.
- Extract from : « Coelebs In Search of a Wife » by Hannah More
- Do you know I could indict you for conspiracy and conniving at theft?'
- Extract from : « Uncle Max » by Rosa Nouchette Carey
- I cannot do this while she could feel I was conniving at what she might not like.
- Extract from : « Beechcroft at Rockstone » by Charlotte M. Yonge
- If some dozen of the conniving deputies had been sent there, Warden Tapp might have had less to extenuate.
- Extract from : « The Incendiary » by W. A. (William Augustine) Leahy
- It is in connection with this "accident" that the reader suspects the modest but resourceful Adair of conniving with Fate.
- Extract from : « Pioneers of the Old Southwest » by Constance Lindsay Skinner
- The law operated alike on conspiring employers and conniving employees.
- Extract from : « The Armies of Labor » by Samuel P. Orth
Synonyms for conniving
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