Conspiracy vs Connive - What's the difference?
conspiracy | connive |
The act of two or more persons, called conspirators, working secretly to obtain some goal, usually understood with negative connotations.
(legal) An agreement between two or more persons to break the law at some time in the future.
A group of ravens.
(linguistics) A situation in which different phonological or grammatical rules lead to similar or related outcomes.
to cooperate with others secretly in order to commit a crime; to collude
to plot or scheme
to pretend to be ignorant of something in order to escape blame; to ignore a fault deliberately
* Jeremy Taylor
* Burke
* Macaulay
(archaic) To open and close the eyes rapidly; to wink.
* Spectator
to be a wench
English control verbs
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As a noun conspiracy
is the act of two or more persons, called conspirators, working secretly to obtain some goal, usually understood with negative connotations.As a verb connive is
to cooperate with others secretly in order to commit a crime; to collude.conspiracy
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(wikipedia conspiracy)Noun
(conspiracies)Derived terms
* conspiracy of silence * conspiracy theoryconnive
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Verb
(conniv)- to connive at what it does not approve
- In many of these, the directors were heartily concurring; in most of them, they were encouraging, and sometimes commanding; in all they were conniving .
- The government thought it expedient, occasionally, to connive at the violation of this rule.
- The artist is to teach them how to nod judiciously, and to connive with either eye.