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planning an illegal or underhanded activity
- 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.p. 366.8
connived = planned (an underhanded activity)
There are no more uses of "conniving" in To Kill a Mockingbird.
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