connive

It stars Brian Cox as the Roy family patriarch and Jeremy Strong as one of his children, who connive to succeed their father as the company’s leader.

From Seattle Times ● Feb. 23, 2023

Actually, she doesn't and she will manipulate, exploit and connive anyone without giving it a second thought if it serves her best interests.

From Salon ● Aug. 17, 2022

Their claims have been amplified in recent weeks, as the “Varsity Blues” college admissions scandal revealed how well-off families connive to get kids into selective colleges.

From Slate ● Apr. 3, 2019

The milieu of the book paints a picture of a treehouse where like minds connive and look for an opening.

From New York Times ● Jun. 22, 2014

Any general who was in position to connive at this traffic, had a fortune at his command; and it was claimed that Banks was eager for some of the spoils.

From The History of Company A, Second Illinois Cavalry by Samuel H. Fletcher

A woman connives to make her husband jealous when his secretive actions lead her to believe him unfaithful.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 24, 2020

It’s a con-artist film — poor family connives its way into jobs serving a younger, wealthy quartet — and the con rides an elevator from comically to tragically desperate.

From New York Times ● Jan. 3, 2020

Eli Gold is the blustering Machiavellian fixer who connives to resurrect the political career of her husband, Peter Florrick.

From The Guardian ● May 1, 2016

To wrap things up: House connives to get Park to disobey an order he knows is wrong so that she will learn to stand up for herself.

From Time ● Nov. 1, 2011

She so bewitches the lieutenant, however, that he connives at her escape and succeeds in effecting it, while she is led away to prison by the soldiers.

From The Standard Operas (12th edition) Their Plots, Their Music, and Their Composers by George P. (George Putnam) Upton

Murdaugh’s lawyers contend that Hill connived to have a juror removed—the so-called Egg Lady—because Hill feared she wasn’t inclined to convict.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 24, 2026

It all began with a truly terrible day for Rhaenyra, who early on learned that her father had died and that her former best friend had connived to steal the throne from her.

From New York Times ● Oct. 23, 2022

But for years she waylaid me on the street to complain and raised that incident at meetings to prove the editors connived with the paid Coop staff to prevent pro-democracy voices from being heard.

From Salon ● Apr. 23, 2022

Still, it’s frustrating to watch Audrey, who connived her way to the top, wring her hands like an unsure novice every time she faces the slightest of challenges.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 21, 2020

Bono had, I ascertained, connived to secrete them when we had removed to this house from the town; having no use for them upon his exile, he had left them for me.

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party" by M.T. Anderson

Yet, actors sign on anyway, and viewers will watch regardless, because Netflix has crafted a conniving production model that benefits the indiscriminate philistines in charge.

From Salon ● Sep. 2, 2026

The couple's daughter, Athena, who appeared via video-link from the US, told the court her father was a "jealous, conniving, narcissistic villain".

From BBC ● Jul. 14, 2026

SantaCon’s conniving leader gives New Yorkers another reason to hate the yearly bar crawl.

From Slate ● Apr. 18, 2026

At a Saturday briefing for high ranking military officers first reported by the Journal, Gen. Zhang was accused of everything from conniving at corruption with family members to spilling nuclear secrets to the U.S.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 26, 2026

She is sneaky and conniving, and I do not like the way it feels.

From "Like Vanessa" by Tami Charles