connive 的定义
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.
connive 近义词
plot, scheme
更多connive例句
- 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.