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con·niv·ing
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Princeton's WordNet
collusive, connivingadjective
acting together in secret toward a fraudulent or illegal end
Synonyms:
collusive, calculative, calculating, scheming, shrewdcalculating, calculative, conniving, scheming, shrewdadjective
used of persons
"the most calculating and selfish men in the community"
Synonyms:
shrewd, scheming, calculative, designing, calculating, sharp, astute, collusive
PPDB, the paraphrase database
List of paraphrases for "conniving":
Words popularity by usage frequency
ranking | word | |
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#3091 | sharp | |
#6425 | designing | |
#11602 | calculating | |
#27285 | dishonest | |
#34018 | astute | |
#44318 | shrewd | |
#60128 | scheming | |
#98300 | conniving | |
#113028 | collusive | |
#308569 | calculative |
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The condition is that the barangay captain should fight drugs and crime. If he is conniving with criminals, he could be the one shot.
When I first met him, I thought he was really insane, there was no question about it. I went back andforth in my own mind of whether he was evil or just insane. Could he just be conniving? You keep going to different places when you review the evidence, but all in all, I reached my ultimate conclusion that he was clinically insane, but not legally insane.
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