About The Word Connivance
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Connivance
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What's The Definition Of Connivance?
[n] (law) tacit approval of someone's wrongdoing
[n] agreement on a secret plot Synonyms | Synonyms for Connivance: collusion | secret approval | tacit consent Related Terms | Find terms related to Connivance: acceptance | accord | acquiescence | affirmation | affirmative | affirmative voice | agreement | approbation | approval | artifice | assent | aye | blessing | cabal | chicane | chicanery | collusion | compliance | complicity | complot | confederacy | connivery | consent | conspiracy | contrivance | contriving | counterplot | covin | deep-laid plot | dodgery | eagerness | endorsement | engineering | finagling | finesse | foul play | frame-up | game | indulgence | intrigue | little game | machination | maneuvering | manipulation | OK | okay | overlooking | permission | permissiveness | pettifoggery | pettifogging | plot | plotting | promptitude | promptness | ratification | readiness | rigging | sanction | scheme | schemery | scheming | sharp practice | skulduggery | sleight | stratagem | submission | sufferance | supercherie | tolerance | toleration | trick | trickery | underhand dealing | underplot | ungrudgingness | unloathness | unreluctance | web of intrigue | willingness | winking | wire-pulling See Also | agreement | approval | cahoots | commendation Connivance In Webster's Dictionary \Con*niv"ance\, n. [Cf. F. connivence, L.
conniventia.]
1. Intentional failure or forbearance to discover a fault or
wrongdoing; voluntary oversight; passive consent or
co["o]peration.
2. (Law) Corrupt or guilty assent to wrongdoing, not
involving actual participation in, but knowledge of, and
failure to prevent or oppose it.
Syn: See {Collusion}.
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