conniving
/kəˈnaɪvɪŋ/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.64 in modern English
15
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
3
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
That connives; conspiratorial.
Example Sentences
- "I waited. Then those two / Strange pilgrims of the sanctuaries of sin / Brought from beneath their large conniving cloaks / Two hidden baskets brimming with rich store / Of broken viands — pasties, jellies, meats, / Crumbs of Belshazzar's table, evil waste / Of that interminable nightly feast […]"
- "Mr. Brezhnev departed drastically from the recent Soviet propaganda line, which has attacked the United States for conniving in the Chinese invasion, as some Soviet press comments have put it. He did say that “the entire danger of any forms of connivance with that policy is more evident now than ever before.” But he did not mention the United States in this context and did not develop the argument voiced constantly by official spokesmen since the invasion that China had been emboldened by its reconciliation with the United States and that the Carter Administration had, in effect, encouraged the Chinese attack."
Inflected Forms
more conniving (comparative)
most conniving (superlative)