connive

• You couldn't plot, connive, check move with counter-move, scheme and devise. —  142 - The Lost Giant
• If I were one of those other 28, watching this drama unfold teaches one terrible lesson, that if you want power in New York, do your best to steal, connive or trick your way into it. —  Joshing Politics
• Looking at the history of the word there has almost always been a sense of "secret" to connive, but in some senses there also seems to have been an unofficial approval of those secret schemes. —  podictionary - for word lovers - dictionary etymology, trivia & history
• In this case however her use of connive is in a poem depicting a conversation between the angel Gabriel and Lucifer. —  podictionary - for word lovers - dictionary etymology, trivia & history
• As suspicious as that might sound, this connive is just the opposite; the angel Gabriel is arguing against Lucifer's depressing stance and saying that —  podictionary - for word lovers - dictionary etymology, trivia & history

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