Sample Sentences forconniving (auto-selected)
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Before Jem looks at anyone else he looks at me, and I've tried to live so I can look squarely back at him… if I connived at something like this, frankly I couldn't meet his eye, and the day I can't do that I'll know I've lost him. (source)connived = planned (an underhanded activity)
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...he said it was a good Bible lesson; that you was to watch out for conniving women who tried to git ye drunk. (source)conniving = planning an underhanded activity
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And, with Red Dillon, a world of noisy saloons, smoky pool halls, ratty little hotels, fly-specked chili parlors, conniving bettors. (source)conniving = planning in an underhanded activity
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Yes, she was conniving when it came to the competition, but that was her being desperate.† (source)
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It was certainly not the dull, drab mess of crystal that the conniving harlot wore.† (source)
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Bless his conniving little heart, Cecil Markowitz tried his best, but he kept throwing off my rhythm section with his spastic clapping and terrible air mic noises.† (source)
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On one side he could see the Imperium, a Harkonnen called Feyd-Rautha who flashed toward him like a deadly blade, the Sardaukar raging off their planet to spread pogrom on Arrakis, the Guild conniving and plotting, the Bene Gesserit with their scheme of selective breeding.† (source)
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You connived with her!† (source)
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For when life makes it impossible for a man to pursue his dreams, he will connive to pursue them anyway.† (source)standard suffix: The suffix "-ive" converts a word into an adjective; though over time, what was originally an adjective often comes to be used as a noun. The adjective pattern means tending to and is seen in words like attractive, impressive, and supportive. Examples of the noun include narrative, alternative, and detective.
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And not because he was a conniver either; I was sure of that.† (source)
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These three men who hated him spoke his language and wore his uniform, but he saw their loveless faces set immutably into cramped, mean lines of hostility and understood instantly that nowhere in the world, not in all the fascist tanks or planes or submarines, not in the bunkers behind the machine guns or mortars or behind the blowing flame throwers, not even among all the expert gunners of the crack Hermann Goering Antiaircraft Division or among the grisly connivers in all the beer halls in Munich and everywhere else, were there men who hated him more.† (source)
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By oldest right, by the divine affinity of virtue with itself, I find them, or rather, not I, but the Deity in me and in them, both deride and cancel the thick walls of individual character, relation, age, sex and circumstance, at which he usually connives, and now makes many one.† (source)
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To reach this point so helpless against your own connivings that the truth has been obscured from you.† (source)
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And prove to the jury that conniving her way into wills handwritten by her old and vulnerable bosses was a devious pattern.† (source)
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Into the details of the infamy at which I thus connived (for even now I can scarce grant that I committed it) I have no design of entering; I mean but to point out the warnings and the successive steps with which my chastisement approached.† (source)
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The Empress of the West would connive for power, but the Empress of the East was good and kind and full of light.† (source)
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