Connive is an English word with synonyms like assent or accede. Below you'll find 6 example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Connive meaning
- To secretly cooperate with other people in order to commit a crime or other wrongdoing; to collude, to conspire.
- Of parts of a plant: to be converging or in close contact; to be connivent.
- Often followed by at: to pretend to be ignorant of something in order to escape blame; to ignore or overlook a fault deliberately.
Using Connive
- The main meaning on this page is: To secretly cooperate with other people in order to commit a crime or other wrongdoing; to collude, to conspire. | Of parts of a plant: to be converging or in close contact; to be connivent. | Often followed by at: to pretend to be ignorant of something in order to escape blame; to ignore or overlook a fault deliberately.
- Useful related words include: assent, accede, acquiesce, scheme.
- In the example corpus, connive often appears in combinations such as: connive with.
Context around Connive
- Average sentence length in these examples: 24.5 words
- Position in the sentence: 1 start, 5 middle, 0 end
- Sentence types: 6 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Connive
- In this selection, "connive" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 24.5 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, keyword and culpably stand out and add context to how "connive" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include as its connive keyword can and decided to connive against us. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "connive" sits close to words such as aargau, abacos and abboud, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with connive
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
The gods decided to connive against us and our jewel, the Western Cape, ran out of water. (17 words)
With their dubious methods, they connive with some corrupt directors to cart away government interventions meant for thousands of farmers. (20 words)
He abhors poachers, game rangers who connive with poachers to kill animals, and everyone who threatens nature and the environment. (20 words)
Also, we ensure that our staff members don't connive with customers because sometimes it is the staff that will influence the customer to default because they want to get something out of it. (34 words)
The deck centers around the aforementioned card, as its Connive keyword can give it a +1/1 should players discard a nonland card they drew when they target this card with an effect. (33 words)
To pretend that it is not the case is to exploit the masses, and connive culpably with those who abuse their historical innocence. (23 words)
Example sentences (6)
The deck centers around the aforementioned card, as its Connive keyword can give it a +1/1 should players discard a nonland card they drew when they target this card with an effect.
With their dubious methods, they connive with some corrupt directors to cart away government interventions meant for thousands of farmers.
The gods decided to connive against us and our jewel, the Western Cape, ran out of water.
Also, we ensure that our staff members don't connive with customers because sometimes it is the staff that will influence the customer to default because they want to get something out of it.
He abhors poachers, game rangers who connive with poachers to kill animals, and everyone who threatens nature and the environment.
To pretend that it is not the case is to exploit the masses, and connive culpably with those who abuse their historical innocence.
Common combinations with connive
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts: