winkedadj.
/wɪŋkt/, U.S. /wɪŋkt/ winked-at, winked-on, connived at, tolerated.
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society > authority > lack of subjection > permission > [adjective] > permitted or allowed > permitted by non-intervention
winked-at1632
tolerated1692
winked-on1810
1632 R. Brome Northern Lasse v. viii [He] has been a loose Liver,..at..most of the winkt at houses about the Town.
1810 G. Crabbe Borough iv. 57 Plays, Put out by Heathens in the wink'd-on days.
1971 J. Brunner Honky in Woodpile iii. 24 Some winked-at gambling and smuggling.
1979 Dædalus Summer 107 Such genre paintings represent not a random clutter of whimsically winked-at transgressions but an array of symbols encoding quite specific moral instructions.
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