To form intrigues in an underhand manner.
1 Our fomite-specimens were finding ways to communicate and connive behind our backs.
2 Does the gifted Annapla also connive , and are hers the window signals?
3 Anyway, it is wise to connive at a thing we can't help.
4 I would, on no account, connive at or participate in the slightest irregularity.
5 Our own citizens do not connive at the escape of slaves.
6 Women connive at it, because-well ,because ,ina way, they must.
7 That girl connive and let the man be robbed whose roof shelters her?
8 But if, after all, the emperor should connive at his escape!
9 The latter took refuge with Gabinius and persuaded him to connive at his restoration.
10 He believed Europe banded for his destruction, and America corrupted to connive at it.
11 You must renounce courts if you will not connive at knaves, and tolerate fools.
12 Nay, think not that I will connive at their escape.
13 Parents, through their misguided sympathy, often connive at filial disobedience.
14 You, as commandant, must not connive with me at that.
15 And it isn't right, either, to connive at thy deed.
16 I will not connive at your coming here without the knowledge of your parents!
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