Crossword-Solution: CONNIVANCE
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Connivance | n. | Intentional failure or forbearance to discover a fault or wrongdoing; voluntary oversight; passive consent or cooperation. |
| Connivance | n. | Corrupt or guilty assent to wrongdoing, not involving actual participation in, but knowledge of, and failure to prevent or oppose it. |
We have 6 clues for the answer “CONNIVANCE”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Secret cooperation | 1 answer |
| tacit approval of someone's wrongdoing | 1 answer |
| Illegal cooperation | 2 answers |
| complicity | 6 answers |
| Collusion | 11 answers |
| Laxity | 68 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
EARET
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with CONNIVANCE (5)
For, as without law there is no sin, without eyes there is no indecorum; and she appeared to feel that Gabriel’s espial had made her an indecorous woman without her own connivance.
His original plan had contemplated connivance in the escape of Lady Greystoke for two very good and sufficient reasons.
When Flamel was not at the house, he missed the support of his tacit connivance; when he was there, his presence seemed the assertion of an intolerable claim.
The Sheik knew very well that his attempt to convert an infidel was illegal, and that his proceedings would not bear investigation, so he took care to pay a large sum to the Governor of Nablus in order to obtain his connivance.
Lily knew that there is nothing society resents so much as having given its protection to those who have not known how to profit by it: it is for having betrayed its connivance that the body social punishes the offender who is found out.
Quotes with CONNIVANCE (2)
Be ruthless about protecting writing days, i.e., do not cave in to endless requests to have "essential" and "long overdue" meetings on those days. The funny thing is that, although writing has been my actual job for several years now, I still seem to have to fight for time in which to do it. Some people do not seem to grasp that I still have to sit down in peace and write the books, apparently believing that they pop up like mushrooms without my connivance. I must therefore g…
Lying there, I thought of my own culture, of the assembly of books in the library at Alexandria; of the deliberations of Darwin and Mendel in their respective gardens; of the architectural conception of the cathedral at Chartres; of Bach's cello suites, the philosophy of Schweitzer, the insights of Planck and Dirac. Have we come all this way, I wondered, only to be dismantled by our own technologies, to be betrayed by political connivance or the impersonal avarice of a corporation?
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Appears in: NYT.
Used 2 times in crossword archives (1974–1993).