(Law) tacit approval of someone's wrongdoing.
Agreement on a secret plot.
Agreement on a secret plot.
1 The disclosures revealed the connivance of the police in stupendous election frauds.
2 The crime was not committed with the connivance of the Spanish government.
3 Also, there is much in his career of political connivance , double-dealing, assassination.
4 It was plainly irregular, and depended on the connivance of his jailer.
5 And this attack was most likely made with the connivance of William.
6 The bishop was afterwards murdered by the treacherous connivance of Henry VI.
7 Then, furious at her apparent connivance , he had started for the station.
8 The connivance of Doctor Walker was suggested by his love for Louise.
9 Few believe the riots could have taken place without the local administration's connivance .
10 The very accusation of connivance with the Medes drove him into their arms.
11 That made everything regular in Agnes's eyes and apparently cleared Carrie of connivance .
12 He would certainly be suspected of connivance with secret enemies of the Republic.
13 In this state of schemes, and hopes, and connivance , June opened upon Hartfield.
14 The woman could hardly have done so without the man's connivance .
15 Not through corruption or any guilty connivance , but through considerations of public interest.
16 With the King's connivance many corsairs launch from this port to plunder merchants.
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