Connivance meaning

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Cooperation in the commission of an illegal or wrongful act.
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The definition of connivance is knowledge of and agreement with an illegal act without participation.

When two people come up with a plot to fix a bid for government services and the person who is in charge of awarding the project knows this and looks the other way, this is an example of connivance.

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The act of conniving.
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The act of conniving.
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Passive cooperation, as by consent or pretended ignorance, esp. in wrongdoing.
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The assent to, encouragement of, or promotion of another’s wrongdoing by silence or feigned ignorance. See also conspiracy. To be in collusion with another person. See also conspiracy. In family law, the consent by one spouse of the other spouse’s improper conduct (such as adultery), either in advance of the conduct or while it is occurring, when that wrongful conduct is a potential ground for divorce.
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The process of conniving.
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Connivance Sentence Examples

  • Louis of Nassau, with a small force raised in France with the connivance of Charles IX., made a sudden dash into Hainault (May 1572) and captured Valenciennes and Mons.

  • organized wholesale robbery and murder of Jews, occurred in many places, it was believed with the connivance of the police and veiled approval in exalted quarters.

  • on 7th April he escaped from his prison, evidently by connivance.

  • 12, the very day on which American and British police were to be installed, D'Annunzio and his Arditi occupied the town, with the open connivance of the Italian naval and military authorities though to the embarrassment of the Roman Cabinet.

  • with the connivance of the governor Omar b.

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