connivance
kuh nahy vuhns
- n agreement on a secret plot
- n (law) tacit approval of someone's wrongdoing
- Just as much, it has scandalized the ivy-walled cloisters of Oxford, exposing a culture of jealousy and mean-spirited connivance at sharp odds with the universitys public .
- With the connivance of the bell captain, he snuck into Mr.
- Meanwhile, smugglers, with the full connivance of the colonists, were getting rich at the expense of honest tax-paying citizens.