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Verbi
- (intransitive) To secretly cooperate with other people in order to commit a crime or other wrongdoing; to collude, to conspire.
- (intransitive, botany, rare) Of parts of a plant: to be converging or in close contact; to be connivent.
- (intransitive, obsolete) Often followed by at: to pretend to be ignorant of something in order to escape blame; to ignore or overlook a fault deliberately.
- (intransitive, obsolete) To open and close the eyes rapidly; to wink.
Esimerkit
- 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.
- The artist is to teach them how to nod judiciously, and to connive with either eye.
Taivutusmuodot
| Partisiipin perfekti | connived |
| Imperfekti | connived |
| Partisiipin preesens | conniving |
| Yksikön kolmannen persoonan indikatiivin preesens | connives |
| Yksikön kolmannen persoonan indikatiivin preesens | conniveth (vanhahtava) |