conniving
Meaning of conniving
verb
- Often followed by with: to secretly cooperate with another person or persons in order to commit a crime or other wrongdoing; to collude, to conspire.
- Of parts of a plant: to be converging or in close contact; to be connivent.
- Often followed by at: to pretend to be ignorant of something in order to escape blame; to ignore or overlook a fault deliberately.
- To open and close the eyes rapidly; to wink.
adjective
That connives; conspiratorial.
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Hyphenation of conniving
con-niv-ing
- It consists of 3 syllables and 9 chars.
- conniving is a word trisyllabic because it has three syllables
conniving synonyms
Meaning collusive:
Meaning calculating:
calculating, calculative, scheming, shrewd
Meaning :
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