Definition of Connivery

1. Noun. collusion ¹

2. Noun. plotting, scheming ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Connivery

1. [n -RIES]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Connivery

conniption
conniption fit
conniptions
connivance
connivances
connivant
connive
connive at
connived
connivencies
connivency
connivent
conniver
conniveries
connivers
connivery (current term)
connives
conniving
connivingly
connivings
connixation
connixations
connodal
connoisseur
connoisseurial
connoisseurs
connoisseurship
connoisseuse
connoisseuses
connotate

Literary usage of Connivery

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. He Usually Lived with a Female: The Life of a California Newspaperman by George Garrigues (2006)
"She blames Dickie and me, although she doesn't suspect all the plotting and connivery that's been going on. And, blaming us, she hates us. ..."

2. The Clanking of Chains by Brinsley MacNamara (1919)
"He had heard of many a fellow that had lost his job through the connivery of a peeler. Yet there had leaped many moments into this day when his mind rose ..."

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