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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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For when life makes it impossible for a man to pursue his dreams, he will connive to pursue them anyway.† (source)connive = plan an illegal or underhanded activity
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And not because he was a conniver either; I was sure of that.† (source)conniver = someone planning an illegal or underhanded activity
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If you fail to punish me, men will believe that we connived together to free Jaime Lannister.† (source)connived = planned an illegal or underhanded activity
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Yes, she was conniving when it came to the competition, but that was her being desperate.† (source)conniving = planning an improper activity
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You connived with her!† (source)connived = planned an illegal or underhanded activity
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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)connive = plan an illegal or underhanded activitystandard 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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The older one is an unpleasant conniver like her mother and the younger one is a simpleton.† (source)conniver = someone planning an illegal or underhanded activity
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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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It was certainly not the dull, drab mess of crystal that the conniving harlot wore.† (source)conniving = planning an improper activity
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It was a side he would show no one but his victims, or those who connived with him.† (source)connived = planned an illegal or underhanded activity
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They connive, and complain and frustrate one to the utmost.† (source)connive = plan an illegal or underhanded activity
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