Crossword-Solution: CONNIVE
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Connive | v. i. | To open and close the eyes rapidly; to wink. |
| Connive | v. i. | To close the eyes upon a fault; to wink (at); to fail or forbear by intention to discover an act; to permit a proceeding, as if not aware of it; -- usually followed by at. |
| Connive | v. t. | To shut the eyes to; to overlook; to pretend not to see. |
We have 24 clues for the answer “CONNIVE”
| Clue | Answers |
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| encourage or assent to illegally or criminally | 1 answer |
| Be intriguing? | 1 answer |
| Be scheming | 2 answers |
| Collude (with) | 3 answers |
| COOPERATE secretly | 4 answers |
| BE IN CAHOOTS | 7 answers |
| collude | 8 answers |
| machinate | 10 answers |
| A SCHEMING WIFE | 11 answers |
| A SCHEMING PERSON | 11 answers |
| ASSIST WITH | 18 answers |
| Conspire | 18 answers |
| Cogitate | 23 answers |
| Blink | 26 answers |
| Wink? | 26 answers |
| Gang (up) | 36 answers |
| humanise | 41 answers |
| Contrive | 44 answers |
| Intrigue | 45 answers |
| collaborate | 50 answers |
| work together | 57 answers |
| Manoeuvre | 59 answers |
| Scheme | 61 answers |
| Plot | 75 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
ERETA
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with CONNIVE (5)
Thou must connive at her escape, Malvoisin, and I will transport her to some place of greater security and secrecy.” “I cannot, if I would,” replied the Preceptor; “the mansion is filled with the attendants of the Grand Master, and others who are devoted to him.
None better than she remembered how his dearest ambition, that of political preferment, had been thwarted by his refusal to truckle, to connive, to compromise with his ideas of right.
Yet even her heroism shrank from the significant glances which Miss Mellins presently began to cast at the couple in front of them: Ann Eliza could bear to connive at Evelina's bliss, but not to acknowledge it to others.
Nor do I doubt that she would gladly connive with the fellow if she thought there was a chance of his seizing the throne.” Von der Tann paled.
Job Trotter briefly explained here, that all persons, being prohibited under heavy penalties from conveying spirits into debtors’ prisons, and such commodities being highly prized by the ladies and gentlemen confined therein, it had occurred to some speculative turnkey to connive, for certain lucrative considerations, at two or three prisoners retailing the favourite article of gin, for their own profit and advantage.
Quotes with CONNIVE (2)
Lark’s Song That child who from Diana’s thought is born A huntress swift, who doth the world adorn With strength and passion worthy of the Green May wax, and one day rise to be a queen. That child who in the eye of Phoebus grows Of visage fair, that none would dare oppose May in her hand hold light and glory too, And to the Light hold sternly staunch and true. That child who with the face of Venus smiles, Will bear a heart of mischief and of wiles, And may in time love’s fait…
If I understand you rightly, you had formed a surmise of such horror as I have hardly words to-- Dear Miss Morland, consider the dreadful nature of the suspicions you have entertained. What have you been judging from? Remember the country and the age in which we live. Remember that we are English, that we are Christians. Consult your own understanding, your own sense of the probable, your own observation of what is passing around you. Does our education prepare us for such at…
Where this answer appears
Appears in: LAT, Newsday, NYT, WP, WSJ.
Used 12 times in crossword archives (1972–2023).