Sentence example with the word 'connive'

connive

accord, blink at, cogitate, combine, conjoin, correspond, engineer, happen together, ignore, maneuver, rig, unite

Last update: July 3, 2015


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The smugglers connived with the police.   [verb]

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The boy's parents connived his bad habits.   [Please select]

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The state, represented by the emperor Phocas, is persuaded to connive at the pope's assumption of spiritual authority; the other churches are intimidated into acquiescence; Lucifer's projects seem fully accomplished, when Heaven raises up Henry VIII.   [verb]

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For the same reason the city found itself compelled at first to connive at their illegal representation on 'Change, and then to violate its own rules by permitting them to act as brokers without previously taking up the freedom.   [verb]

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For the same reason the city found itself compelled at first to connive at their illegal representation on 'Change, and then to violate its own rules by permitting them to act as brokers without previously taking up the freedom.   [Please select]

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” Alternately proscribed and connived at, much subjected to pogroms, it gradually increased in strength.   [Please select]

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And there were more degenerate miscreants still, who connived with the Police and went unscathed.   [Please select]

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I have done my best to spare you--I have not connived or condoned.   [Please select]

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One got away; and, as it might appear that Walker had connived at his escape, to the second man was shown no mercy.   [Please select]

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The inducement was that it gave them better opportunities to be together--an arrangement connived at by the queen, I think--and they were satisfied.   [Please select]

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