connive

Upon arrival, the men connive to set up shop at a rest house for travelers, despite having not made reservations.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 28, 2026

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

But if you should survive to 105, Think how well you’ll connive with the stuff you contrive.

From Washington Post ● Aug. 3, 2017

And I should not call it helping any one to connive at a marriage when one of the parties is already married.

From By Wit of Woman by Arthur W. (Arthur Williams) Marchmont

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

Secretly, though, he dresses up as a friar and connives behind the scenes to thwart Angelo's decisions and to save Claudio.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 14, 2017

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

Instead, Ferris just connives to use Cameron for things Cameron has that Ferris does not.

From Salon ● Aug. 22, 2011

Is it nothing that mamma out of pity to me connives at our meeting and spending hours together?

From Hard Cash by Charles Reade

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

Make no mistake: The newspaper industry connived in its own decline.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 29, 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

Crowned and uncrowned, during periods of supposedly republican government and not, they largely ruled the city-state, or connived to, from the mid-14th to the mid-18th centuries, using art to cement their power.

From New York Times ● Jun. 24, 2021

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

Netflix has crafted a conniving production model that benefits the indiscriminate philistines in charge.

From Salon ● Sep. 2, 2026

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

From Slate ● Apr. 18, 2026

She may be a conniving opportunist; she may be an abused and desperate woman simply hoping for a better life.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 31, 2026

At Sam First, you’re so far into the Westside it feels conniving and like a tech monster might hold you hostage until you give up all your data.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 28, 2026

“He’s been a source of conniving and cajolery in this community long enough,” Mrs. Larkin continued.

From "Moon Over Manifest" by Clare Vanderpool