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conniving

kuh nahy ving

  • v  encourage or assent to illegally or criminally
  • v  form intrigues (for) in an underhand manner
  • s  acting together in secret toward a fraudulent or illegal end
  • s  used of persons
News & Articles

  • 'Pretty Little Liars' Tammin Sursok is pregnant
    Pretty Little Liarsstar Tammin Sursok, who plays the conniving Jenna Marshall on the popular ABC Family drama, announced on Twitter Thursday (June 6) that she is expecting a baby, posting a picture of her pregnancy test to Instagram.
    June 6, 2013 - Zap2It
  • Gazette.Net: A weakness by any other name...
    Tom Sawyer shrewdly avoided whitewashing Aunt Polly’s fence by conniving others into doing the work for him. When it was seen as an assigned task, it was detestable.
    June 5, 2013 - Gazette.net
  • Column: Google has never looked lamer thanks to 'The Internship'
    In terms of character, David Fincher's "The Social Network" didn't do Mark Zuckerberg any favors. Lead Jesse Eisenberg portrays the Facebook (NASDAQ:FB) CEO as a conniving, backstabbing, prideful jerk who very well may have stolen much of the idea behind "The Facebook" from people who trusted him.
    June 5, 2013 - amNewYork
Quotes

  • Segolene Royal in Hindu
    Ms. Royal said: "These are methods from another age. They say a lot about a certain amount of conniving with powerful financial media interests."
  • Rudi Johnson in CBC.ca
    All this happened once he got released,Johnson told reporters as he came off the practice field. "He came here to get some stuff out of his locker [and] that is when he scooped the bags up. Some real shyster, conniving stuff, man."

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