connive
What is the opposite of connive? Here is what we hold, with its meaning and related words.
Verb — To secretly cooperate with other people in order to commit a crime or other wrongdoing; to collude, to conspire.
Etymology
From French conniver (“to ignore and thus become complicit in wrongdoing”), or directly from its etymon Latin con(n)īvēre (“close or screw up the eyes, blink, wink; overlook, turn a blind eye, connive”) (perhaps alluding to two persons involved in a scheme together winking to each other), from con- (prefix indicating a...
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