Meaning & use
Connived
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Secretly cooperated in or planned a wrongful or illegal act, or deliberately ignored an act one should have opposed.
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The two managers connived to hide the accounting errors from auditors.
Critics argued the official had connived at the fraud by looking the other way.
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Can mean either actively plotting with someone or passively allowing wrongdoing to happen by turning a blind eye.
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