Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who connives.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who connives.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A person who
connives
Etymologies
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Examples
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Diane Fletcher is Lady Macbeth to Urquhart's peerless conniver, and Michael Kitchen does a regal take on Prince Charles.
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Burnett's much-loved character, conniver Verla Grubbs (last seen in 2005), is intent on getting her hooks into old flame Sam Brady (Jason Kincaid) and wants to make sure her rival Opal (Jill Larson) doesn't land him first.
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Instead, she has to be more subtle, a bit of a conniver.
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Where I found Dylan to be a dry kind of character, Manson -- like any notable bad guy -- comes off as a charismatic conniver.
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Instead, she has to be more subtle, a bit of a conniver.
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Instead, she has to be more subtle, a bit of a conniver.
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Livia is the highborn conniver who facilitates both intrigues, and later falls for Bianca's lowborn husband, Leantio.
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Instead, she has to be more subtle, a bit of a conniver.
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While Sean Parker is portrayed as a "high-flying but functionally homeless cocaine fiend who plies Zuckerberg with girls and venture capitalists," Zuckerberg receives the brunt of the film's black-comedic depiction and, according to Newsweek, comes off as a "borderline autistic, entirely ruthless conniver."
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Based on Ben Mezrich's 2009 book The Accidental Billionaires, it portrays Zuckerberg as a borderline autistic, entirely ruthless conniver.
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