Knive vs. Connive: What's the Difference?
Knive and Connive Definitions
Connive
To cooperate secretly in an illegal or wrongful action; collude
The dealers connived with customs officials to bring in narcotics.
Connive
To scheme; plot.
Connive
To feign ignorance of or fail to take measures against a wrong, thus implying tacit encouragement or consent
The guards were suspected of conniving at the prisoner's escape.
Connive
(intransitive) To secretly cooperate with other people in order to commit a crime or other wrongdoing; to collude, to conspire.
Connive
Of parts of a plant: to be converging or in close contact; to be connivent.
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Connive
Often followed by at: to pretend to be ignorant of something in order to escape blame; to ignore or overlook a fault deliberately.
Connive
To open and close the eyes rapidly; to wink.
Connive
To open and close the eyes rapidly; to wink.
The artist is to teach them how to nod judiciously, and to connive with either eye.
Connive
To close the eyes upon a fault; to wink (at); to fail or forbear by intention to discover an act; to permit a proceeding, as if not aware of it; - usually followed by at.
To connive at what it does not approve.
In many of these, the directors were heartily concurring; in most of them, they were encouraging, and sometimes commanding; in all they were conniving.
The government thought it expedient, occasionally, to connive at the violation of this rule.
Connive
To shut the eyes to; to overlook; to pretend not to see.
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Connive
Encourage or assent to illegally or criminally
Connive
Form intrigues (for) in an underhand manner
