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

• Allowing or conniving at contagious disease suffers, contagious disease pathogen carriers, and suspected contagious disease sufferers to take up jobs susceptible to spreading contagious diseases
  准许或者纵容传染病病人、病原携带者和疑似传染病病人从事的易使该传染病扩散的工作的
• 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。
• While the essence of multiculturalism is conniving and solidifying the difference of diverse cultures, which may triggers the risk of radicalization of Muslims of the UK.
  不过，多元文化主义的实质是对不同文化间差异的默许和固化，这导致英国本土面临着穆斯林激进化的风险。
• 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。
• He accused ministers of conniving with foreign companies to tear up employment rights
  他指责部长们与外国公司串通一气损害就业权。
• 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。
• For One-Man Company system, many countries in the world all experienced the process, from understanding and rejecting, conniving to the formal lawmaking to accept that system.
  对于一人公司制度，世界各国均经历了认识、排斥、默许到正式立法接受该制度，这样一个过程。
• 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。
• Predilection towards children is conniving them, which is adverse for their growth.
  回护孩子等于纵容孩子，这样做不利于孩子的成长。
• He suspected elements within the South African government were conniving at the disturbances to try to weaken the ANC
  他怀疑南非政府内有一帮人纵容这些骚乱的发生，企图削弱非国大。