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present participle and gerund of connive examples
comparative more conniving, superlative most conniving
That connives; conspiratorial. quotations examples
I waited. Then those two / Strange pilgrims of the sanctuaries of sin / Brought from beneath their large conniving cloaks / Two hidden baskets brimming with rich store / Of broken viands — pasties, jellies, meats, / Crumbs of Belshazzar's table, evil waste / Of that interminable nightly feast […]
1902, Edith Wharton, The Bread of Angels