How to Use connivance in a Sentence

connivance

noun
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  • Such dodges work only with the connivance of the courts.
    — The Economist, 5 Oct. 2019
  • In the old days, bride kidnapping, often with the connivance of the bride, was the key to courtship.
    — Stanley Stewart, Condé Nast Traveler, 12 Oct. 2019
  • Information is mounting about the connivance in all of this.
    — Jay Ambrose, Star Tribune, 6 Oct. 2020
  • With the connivance of the board of directors, he was afforded all sorts of corporate perks and huge grants of stock options.
    — John Cassidy, The New Yorker, 3 Mar. 2020
  • In his scenes with Charley, there’s a lifetime of scrounging and connivance reflected in Del’s gimlet eyes.
    — Peter Rainer, The Christian Science Monitor, 6 Apr. 2018
  • Much of Mr Kabuga’s time was spent there, almost certainly with the connivance of officials.
    — The Economist, 21 May 2020
  • For all the connivance in Adams’s character, another side of the Adams legacy is also plain.
    — Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 24 Oct. 2022
  • The people who elected Mr. Trump are people whose expectations have been raised by the connivance of the market.
    — Amanda Petrusich, The New Yorker, 29 May 2019
  • The ability to cram such sheer connivance into every sentence must have been what first attracted Trump to his son-in-law.
    — Charles P. Pierce, Esquire, 24 July 2017
  • With liberal connivance, indeed, the Supreme Court has in our time become more business-friendly than at any other point in nearly a century.
    — Ryan D. Doerfler, The New Republic, 13 Oct. 2020
  • Such outrages there remain unpunished because the United States and their allies with the connivance of international human rights entities, have been covering up the crimes of the Kiev regime.
    — Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY, 24 Sep. 2022
  • As the investigation continued, however, Cook and his parents came to suspect that the Murdaughs were trying to pin the blame on him, possibly with the connivance of local law enforcement.
    — James Lasdun, The New Yorker, 16 Jan. 2023
  • Finally, Albright’s cases reveal a third factor in fascism’s rise: the connivance of conservatives.
    — Sheri Berman, New York Times, 20 Apr. 2018
  • The legislature, with the eager connivance of Governor Tim Walz, voted routinely in partisan lockstep to enact a wish list of left-wing radicalism.
    — The Editors, National Review, 31 May 2023
  • After exploiting everything and everyone, making millions and, in Epstein’s case, billions, both men died as guests of the nation, with either the abject incompetence or sinister connivance of a government that once coddled them.
    — Kevin Cullen, BostonGlobe.com, 15 Aug. 2019
  • Joe Childers, assistant city attorney, stated in a January memorandum to Pettigrew that her circumstances did not fit within the definition of self-dealing unless there was evidence of connivance and bad faith on her part.
    — Arkansas Online, 5 Dec. 2022

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