conniving

英 [kəˈnaɪvɪŋ]

美 [kəˈnaɪvɪŋ]

adj.  暗算他人的; 故意纵容的
v.  纵容; 默许; 放任; 共谋; 狼狈为奸; 同流合污
connive的现在分词

COCA.33065

牛津词典

adj.

• 暗算他人的；故意纵容的
  behaving in a way that secretly hurts others or deliberately fails to prevent others from being hurt

柯林斯词典

• ADJ 惯使阴谋的;狡诈的
  If you describe someone asconniving, you mean you dislike them because they make secret plans in order to get things for themselves or harm other people.
  1. Edith was seen as a conniving, greedy woman.
     人们认为伊迪丝是一个诡计多端的贪婪女人。

英英释义

adj

• used of persons
  1. the most calculating and selfish men in the community
  Synonym:calculatingcalculativeschemingshrewd
• acting together in secret toward a fraudulent or illegal end
  Synonym:collusive

双语例句

• In the latter days of apartheid in South Africa, it seemed paradoxical that leading South African companies were actively conniving at its downfall with exiled revolutionaries.
  在南非种族隔离时期的后半段，南非主要企业积极与流亡海外的革命者合谋推翻该制度&这一事实似乎有些荒谬。
• The theory sounds quite conniving.
  这种说法听起来很有说服力。（分词）
• Suggestion on Adding Crime of Shielding or Conniving Terroristic Organization
  关于增设包庇、纵容恐怖活动组织罪的立法探讨
• Reigned by a beautiful but conniving queen bee with a couple of yes-girls at her side, the mean-girl clique is an essential part of any high school movie worth watching.
  这类坏女孩的小集团在高校电影中是不容缺少且非常值得一看的部分。
• If you believe what you see on TV, women are inscrutable, conniving, hysterical and apt to change their minds without reason or warning.
  正如你从电视上所看到的，传统观念中，女人像谜一样，似乎在密谋着什么，情绪也异常波动，常常会毫无理由或征兆地改变她们的想法。
• Pigs are far too naive to put up with the conniving snakes and should do whatever is necessary to avoid them.
  太过天真的肖猪者受不了奸诈的肖蛇者，所以尽可能离他们越远越好。
• However, this could not become our excuse of conniving evil or giving up goodness.
  但这并不能成为我们纵容恶、荒废善的理由。
• Not again and again excuse man's mistake, this for conniving at habit that can dodge to lie become a man.
  别一再的原谅男人的错误，这种纵容会让说谎成为男人的习惯。
• Guards were suspected of conniving at the prisoner's escape.
  警卫人员有纵容犯人越狱的嫌疑。
• The general is accused of conniving in a plot to topple the government.
  将军被指控纵容一个颠覆政府的阴谋。