connive

How To Use connive In A Sentence

• The extract inclosed, which is taken from an official publication of the Belgian Government, and the extract from an official statement by the Belgian Minister of War, prove that the Belgian Government had never connived, or been willing to connive, at the breach of the treaty that made the maintenance of Belgian neutrality an international obligation. The New York Times Current History of the European War, Vol. 1, January 9, 1915 What Americans Say to Europe
• The student tried to connive with her friend to cheat in the examination.
• If the faultes and vices were fitt to be looked into and discover'd, let the persons be who they would that were guilty of them, they were sure to finde no connivence of favour from him. Characters from 17th Century Histories and Chronicles
• She says the men connived at their own obliteration from history, overwhelmed at learning of the deaths of Scott and the other members of the south pole party, for which any one of them could have been selected. Scott of the Antarctic anniversary to focus on science, not the sideshow
• The accusation that the king aimed at increasing the royal prerogative or deliberately connived at secret influence will not bear scrutiny.
• There are cries of how lawyers and others have allegedly connived in the misapplication of justice.
• Jim Norton plays Finian with Irish charm; his Finian is a lovable conniver blessed with a glint in his eye and an endless supply of quick-witted retorts. Crazytown, Missitucky
• As I said before, the conniver could not be trusted.
• The accusation that the king aimed at increasing the royal prerogative or deliberately connived at secret influence will not bear scrutiny.
• Livia is the highborn conniver who facilitates both intrigues, and later falls for Bianca's lowborn husband, Leantio. Theater review: Constellation Theatre's 'Women Beware Women'