conniver
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9.1
- noun
- /kəˈnaɪvər/
- Formal
:
connivente
- In the office, she acted as a conniver, pretending to support her colleagues while secretly undermining their efforts.
Examples
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And most importantly, the conniver has no concern about the facts of a matter in his effort to meet his own needs.
Blog text (30) -
Mitt is that kind of liar that we refer to as a conniver.
Blog text (30) -
-The old conniver.
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She was a drunk; he saw that now, a conniver he didn't need anymore.
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It requires the ability to lie without hesitation and/or to describe circumstances not as they are, but as the conniver wants others to understand them.
Blog text (30) -
To a certain extent, Disney had been keeping 'evil' connivers and competitors from the entrance to the Disney studios throughout the 1920s.
Blog text (10) -
The reader may have a hard time making the connection between Disney "keeping 'evil' connivers" away from his studios and the inevitability of his making a film about a banished princess.
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He was a silent conniver, always allowing his friends to cheat without speaking out against it.
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The politician was revealed to be a conniver, subtly orchestrating schemes to benefit his own interests.
Antonyms
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6.2
A person who tells authorities about secret illegal acts in an organization to stop harm
How Complicit
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6.2
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6.7
- Offensive
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5.6
- Formal
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9.1
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Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Conniver comes from the Latin word connivere, which meant 'to close the eyes' or 'to wink'. So a conniver is like someone who 'turns a blind eye' and quietly allows wrong or illegal actions to happen.