connivance

noun

con·niv·ance kə-ˈnī-vən(t)s

Synonyms of connivance next

: the act of conniving

especially : knowledge of and active or passive consent to wrongdoing

He stole millions of dollars with the connivance of his partner.

Example Sentences

was able to sneak out at night with the connivance of a camp counselor

Recent Examples on the Web The legislature, with the eager connivance of Governor Tim Walz, voted routinely in partisan lockstep to enact a wish list of left-wing radicalism. —

The Editors, National Review, 31 May 2023 As the investigation continued, however, Cook and his parents came to suspect that the Murdaughs were trying to pin the blame on him, possibly with the connivance of local law enforcement. —

James Lasdun, The New Yorker, 16 Jan. 2023 Whatever his faults, Mulele was loyal to Patrice Lumumba, the progressive prime minister of Congo’s first government, who in 1961 had been quickly overthrown and executed with Belgian and American connivance. —

Howard W. French, The New York Review of Books, 29 Nov. 2022 Joe Childers, assistant city attorney, stated in a January memorandum to Pettigrew that her circumstances did not fit within the definition of self-dealing unless there was evidence of connivance and bad faith on her part. —

Arkansas Online, 5 Dec. 2022 For all the connivance in Adams’s character, another side of the Adams legacy is also plain. —

Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 24 Oct. 2022 Such outrages there remain unpunished because the United States and their allies with the connivance of international human rights entities, have been covering up the crimes of the Kiev regime. —

Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY, 24 Sep. 2022 With the connivance of venal theater critic Addison DeWitt (George Sanders), Eve maneuvers to displace aging star Margo Channing (Bette Davis) from a lead role and become a star herself. —

Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 21 July 2022 With liberal connivance, indeed, the Supreme Court has in our time become more business-friendly than at any other point in nearly a century. —

Ryan D. Doerfler, The New Republic, 13 Oct. 2020 See More

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