connivance

[US]/kə'naɪv(ə)ns/
[UK]/kəˈnaɪvəns/
Frequency: Very High

Translation

n. tacit permission; willingness to overlook or allow something

Example Sentences

done with the connivance of (done in connivance with)

this infringement of the law had taken place with the connivance of officials.

He tried to bribe the police into connivance.

The criminals could not have escaped without your connivance.

to act in connivance with someone

to turn a blind eye to connivance

Real-world Examples

With police connivance, they pressured her to leave.

Source: The Economist (Summary)

Anyway, many migrants who come ashore in Italy disappear north before being identified—with the connivance of the Italian authorities.

Source: The Economist (Summary)

This man penetrated to your very door by their connivance.

Source: Selected Works of O. Henry

If she was innocent of connivance in the crime, it was concocted by her, and by her only as she stated.

Source: Murder at the golf course

It would be useful, but almost impossible, to mark all the cards, and it would mean the connivance at least of the croupier.

Source: Casino Royale of the 007 series

" Then you consider that Madame Beroldy was wrongly acquitted? That in actual fact she was guilty of connivance in her husband's murder" ?

Source: Murder at the golf course

Paul was deposed and murdered with the likely connivance of his son Alexander the First, who was torn all his life between his grandmother's liberalism and his father's conservatism.

Source: The rise and fall of superpowers.

One day there was disclosed an alarming breech of this rule, surely a case of Teutonic connivance—during the night four men had grown hair upon their faces.

Source: Beauty and Destruction (Part 2)

" ... dead? Why, to plant another rose on Tommen's council. Are you blind or bought? Rosby stood in her way, so she put him in his grave. With your connivance" .

Source: A Song of Ice and Fire: A Feast for Crows (Bilingual Edition)

The British ministry, with indifference if not connivance, permitted rams and ships to be built in British docks and allowed them to escape to play havoc under the Confederate flag with American commerce.

Source: American history

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