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  • noun Plural form of conniving.

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Examples

  • When he was forced out in 2006, and kept out by the connivings of the military and the conservative Thai courts, all the old rural resentments came boiling back in the form of the red revolution.

    It’s Not Just Red and Yellow 2010

  • The connivings and machinations of the world never touched her.

    Global Warming John 2008

  • To reach this point so helpless against your own connivings that the truth has been obscured from you.

    Underworld Don Delillo 2008

  • Would the GOP in its sleaziest connivings wish a terrorist strike on the country - if that's what it took to ensure another Republican takes the Oath of Office next January?

    The G in GOP Stands for Ghoul 2008

  • To reach this point so helpless against your own connivings that the truth has been obscured from you.

    Underworld Don Delillo 2008

  • Would the GOP in its sleaziest connivings wish a terrorist strike on the country - if that's what it took to ensure another Republican takes the Oath of Office next January?

    The G in GOP Stands for Ghoul 2008

  • In spite of the stealth, corrupt intervenings and connivings of Amercian-backed criminals controlled by the Bush+Clinton mafioso (witness Clinton being accepted by Bush Godfather Bush I in Kennebunkport Maine summer 2005)

    Think Progress » American Press Fearmonger Against Mexico’s Progressive Candidate 2006

  • Would the GOP in its sleaziest connivings wish a terrorist strike on the country -- if that's what it took to ensure another Republican takes the Oath of Office next January?

    Mary Lyon: The G in GOP Stands for Ghoul 2008

  • To reach this point so helpless against your own connivings that the truth has been obscured from you.

    Underworld Don Delillo 2008

  • So Cartier relies heavily on “his manager,” Bobby Gleason, who “must cope with the intrigues and connivings of the ring — a business in which no blows are barred.”

    Stanley Kubrick: Eyes Wide Open Panzer, Mary 2005

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