conniving
Meaning
connive
- (intransitive) To secretly cooperate with other people in order to commit a crime or other wrongdoing; to collude, to conspire.
- (intransitive, 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.
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Pronounced as (IPA)
/kəˈnaɪvɪŋ/
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