Meaning & use
Conniver
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A person who secretly plans or schemes, often to achieve something dishonest or unfair.
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The play's villain is a smooth-talking conniver who manipulates everyone around him.
Coworkers suspected she was a conniver after the sudden, unexplained promotion.
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Derived from 'connive,' which originally meant to pretend not to notice wrongdoing before it came to mean actively scheming.
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