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connive

/kuh-nahyv/US // kəˈnaɪv //UK // (kəˈnaɪv) //

纵容,隐瞒,默许,欺瞒

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v.无主动词 verb
  1. 1

    con·nived, con·niv·ing.

    • : to cooperate secretly; conspire: They connived to take over the business.
    • : to avoid noticing something that one is expected to oppose or condemn; give aid to wrongdoing by forbearing to act or speak: The policeman connived at traffic violations.
    • : to be indulgent toward something others oppose or criticize: to connive at childlike exaggerations.

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Examples

  • When they couldn't connive and consume they turned into black and white and had nothing left to live for.

  • They would never connive at this second sowing of the dragon's teeth of Cadmus.

  • Werther, however, did not abandon his enterprise, and even besought the judge to connive at the flight of the prisoner.

  • What was there astonishing in that King James, not wishing to shed your blood on the scaffold, should connive at your escape?

  • No money-making graft is too petty or too immoral for the MacMorroghs to connive at.

  • When I suggested that he connive with the governor toward removing our sheriff, he declared that the governor was a coward.

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