How to Use connivance in a Sentence

connivance

noun
  • In the old days, bride kidnapping, often with the connivance of the bride, was the key to courtship.
    — Stanley Stewart, Condé Nast Traveler, 12 Oct. 2019
  • Or secretly despise his own connivance?
    — Anthony Lane, New Yorker, 18 Sep. 2025
  • With the connivance of the board of directors, he was afforded all sorts of corporate perks and huge grants of stock options.
    — John Cassidy, The New Yorker, 3 Mar. 2020
  • Much of Mr Kabuga’s time was spent there, almost certainly with the connivance of officials.
    — The Economist, 21 May 2020
  • In his scenes with Charley, there’s a lifetime of scrounging and connivance reflected in Del’s gimlet eyes.
    — Peter Rainer, The Christian Science Monitor, 6 Apr. 2018
  • For all the connivance in Adams’s character, another side of the Adams legacy is also plain.
    — Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 24 Oct. 2022
  • Back then, legislators were not just opposed to this or that weapon, but American connivance with an immoral war itself.
    — Time, 17 July 2023
  • With liberal connivance, indeed, the Supreme Court has in our time become more business-friendly than at any other point in nearly a century.
    — Ryan D. Doerfler, The New Republic, 13 Oct. 2020
  • But the one commonality is the halo of protection or connivance or collaboration around these characters.
    — Stephania Taladrid, The New Yorker, 25 Sep. 2023
  • With the connivance of federal judges who wish to keep their dockets pared down, big corporations force aggrieved consumers and workers into arbitration, where the latter are at a disadvantage.
    — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 2 Nov. 2023
  • But widespread disgust with the mayor’s mendacity and the connivance of eight City Council members is changing the political landscape.
    — U T Readers, San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 Dec. 2025
  • The complaint also says Davenport has been gaming the system for years with the rest of the board’s connivance — allegations Davenport and the other members of the board have denied.
    — Fredrick Kunkle, Washington Post, 20 Sep. 2023
  • As the investigation continued, however, Cook and his parents came to suspect that the Murdaughs were trying to pin the blame on him, possibly with the connivance of local law enforcement.
    — James Lasdun, The New Yorker, 16 Jan. 2023
  • The legislature, with the eager connivance of Governor Tim Walz, voted routinely in partisan lockstep to enact a wish list of left-wing radicalism.
    — The Editors, National Review, 31 May 2023
  • Such outrages there remain unpunished because the United States and their allies with the connivance of international human rights entities, have been covering up the crimes of the Kiev regime.
    — Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY, 24 Sep. 2022
  • Benazir was assassinated in 2007 by the Pakistani Taliban—probably with the connivance of the security forces—while running for a third term in office.
    — Andrew J. Nathan, Foreign Affairs, 13 Oct. 2020
  • After exploiting everything and everyone, making millions and, in Epstein’s case, billions, both men died as guests of the nation, with either the abject incompetence or sinister connivance of a government that once coddled them.
    — Kevin Cullen, BostonGlobe.com, 15 Aug. 2019
  • Joe Childers, assistant city attorney, stated in a January memorandum to Pettigrew that her circumstances did not fit within the definition of self-dealing unless there was evidence of connivance and bad faith on her part.
    — Arkansas Online, 5 Dec. 2022
  • Nearly unseated by his popular prime minister, Mohammad Mosaddeq, in 1953, the shah retained his throne with American and clerical connivance.
    — Laura Secor, Foreign Affairs, 6 Dec. 2013

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