connive

• Verbe désignant le fait de s'entendre secrètement avec quelqu'un pour commettre des actes malhonnêtes ou illégaux, ou de fermer les yeux sur de tels agissements en y consentant tacitement.

A verb used to indicate secretly cooperating or conspiring with someone to do something dishonest or illegal.

1. Secretly cooperate or plotC1formal

   To secretly work together with someone to do something dishonest or illegal.

   Comploter secrètement

   • The two officials connived to embezzle public funds.
   • They connived with the enemy to overthrow the government.
   • The employees connived to hide the accounting errors from the auditors.

   Synonymescolludecomplotconspireintriguemachinateplotscheme

2. Tacitly allow wrongdoingC1formal

   To deliberately ignore or give silent approval to something wrong or illegal.

   tolérer tacitement une faute

   • The manager connived at the staff's frequent absences.
   • The police were accused of conniving at the illegal gambling operation.
   • By not reporting the violation, she effectively connived in the crime.

   Synonymescondoneignoreoverlooktolerateturn a blind eyewink at

   Antonymescondemndisallowforbidopposepreventprohibit

Variantes phrasalconnive at