connivance
11connivance — noun Date: 1593 the act of conniving; especially knowledge of and active or passive consent to wrongdoing …
12connivance — /keuh nuy veuhns/, n. 1. the act of conniving. 2. Law. a. tacit encouragement or assent (without participation) to wrongdoing by another. b. the consent by a person to a spouse s conduct, esp. adultery, that is later made the basis of a divorce… …
13connivance — noun The process of conniving …
14connivance — Synonyms and related words: OK, acceptance, accord, acquiescence, affirmation, affirmative, affirmative voice, agreement, approbation, approval, artifice, assent, aye, blessing, cabal, chicane, chicanery, collusion, compliance, complicity,… …
15connivance — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. cooperation, collusion, complicity; permission, sufferance. II (Roget s Thesaurus II) also connivence noun A secret plan to achieve an evil or illegal end: cabal, collusion, conspiracy, intrigue,… …
16connivance — con·niv·ance || kÉ™ naɪvÉ™ns n. conspiring, conniving; encouragement, implied permission (to a wrongdoing) …
17connivance — n. 1. Voluntary blindness (to an act), pretended ignorance, forbearance of disapproval, winking at, blinking. 2. Tacit consent, secret approval, indirect or underhand or remote participation, secret and indirect abettal …
18connivance — n 1. overlooking or purposely overlooking, ignoring, disregarding, paying no regard or heed to, paying no attention to, taking no notice or note of, being blind to, turning a blind eye to, closing or shutting one s eyes to, looking the other way …
19connivance — con·niv·ance …
20connivance — See: connive …
