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Meanings of connive at in anglès

portuguès
passar ao lado

Give one's silent approval to.

        passar ao lado
        Usage of connive at in anglès
        1
        Anyway, it is wise to connive at a thing we can't help.
        A Simpleton
        2
        I would, on no account, connive at or participate in the slightest irregularity.
        Edgar Huntly; or, Memoirs of a Sleep-Walker
        3
        Our own citizens do not connive at the escape of slaves.
        A Report of the Debates and Proceedings in the Secret Sessions o...
        4
        Women connive at it, because-well ,because ,ina way, they must.
        Gala-Days
        5
        But if, after all, the emperor should connive at his escape!
        Joseph II. and His Court: An Historical Novel
        6
        The latter took refuge with Gabinius and persuaded him to connive at his restoration.
        Dio's Rome, Volume 2 / An Historical Narrative Originally Compos...
        7
        He believed Europe banded for his destruction, and America corrupted to connive at it.
        Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli, Volume I
        8
        You must renounce courts if you will not connive at knaves, and tolerate fools.
        Letters to His Son, 1749 / On the Fine Art of Becoming a Man of ...
        9
        Nay, think not that I will connive at their escape.
        The Lord of Dynevor: A Tale of the Times of Edward the First
        10
        Parents, through their misguided sympathy, often connive at filial disobedience.
        The Christian Home / As it is in the Sphere of Nature and the Ch...
        11
        And it isn't right, either, to connive at thy deed.
        A Survey of Russian Literature, with Selections
        12
        I will not connive at your coming here without the knowledge of your parents!
        What's Mine's Mine — Volume 3
        13
        The method by which he got the allies to connive at his doings was twofold.
        Hellenica
        14
        Successful stereotypes But we sometimes connive at reinforcing parts of the stereotype we don't like.
        The Irish Times
        15
        Beware lest thou be led to connive at injustice.
        Gleanings from the Writings of Bahá'u'lláh
        16
        I hope you don't expect me to connive at the abduction of my own daughter.
        The Mummy and Miss Nitocris: A Phantasy of the Fourth Dimension
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        Translations for connive at
        portuguès
        passar ao lado
        Connive at through the time
        Connive at across language varieties
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