Connivance
[kə'naɪv(ə)ns]
Definition
(noun.) (law) tacit approval of someone's wrongdoing.
(noun.) agreement on a secret plot.
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Definition
(n.) Intentional failure or forbearance to discover a fault or wrongdoing; voluntary oversight; passive consent or cooperation.
(n.) Corrupt or guilty assent to wrongdoing, not involving actual participation in, but knowledge of, and failure to prevent or oppose it.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Voluntary blindness (to an act), pretended ignorance, forbearance or disapproval, winking at.
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Examples
- He entered the town (538 B.C.), probably as we have already suggested, with the connivance of the priests of Bel. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- It was the kind of masculine solidarity that he himself often practised; now he sickened at their connivance. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
- I think that it was with the connivance of one or more of the men at the gate. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- Still, if her father really has left her, without any connivance on her part—Bounderby, let me have a word with you. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
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