CONNIVING


Meaning of CONNIVING in English

If you describe someone as ~, you mean you dislike them because they make secret plans in order to get things for themselves or harm other people.

Edith was seen as a ~, greedy woman.

= scheming

ADJ: usu ADJ n disapproval

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