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(kənaɪvɪŋ)
adjective [usually ADJECTIVE noun]
If you describe someone as conniving, you mean you dislike them because they make secret plans in order to get things for themselves or harm other people.
[disapproval]
Edith was seen as a conniving, greedy woman.
Synonyms: scheming, designing, plotting, calculating More Synonyms of conniving

conniving in British English

(kəˈnaɪvɪŋ)
adjective
plotting secretly; conspiring

Examples of 'conniving' in a sentence
conniving

You've been conniving with Susan; you knew all about it; she took her lead from you; she's told me about you and l, ambert.
Weldon, Fay SPLITTING (2002)
I don't think I've ever encountered a more backbiting, conniving noble.
Robin Hobb THE GOLDEN FOOL: BOOK TWO OF THE TAWNY MAN (2002)
(adjective) 
I think you are a greedy and conniving person.
Synonyms
scheming
a cold, scheming villain
designing
the wily cunning of a designing hypocrite
plotting
calculating
He is a cool, calculating and clever criminal.
conspiring
contriving
caballing
collusive

Additional synonyms

in the sense of calculating
Definition
selfishly scheming
He is a cool, calculating and clever criminal.
Synonyms
scheming,
designing,
sharp,
shrewd,
cunning,
contriving,
sly,
canny,
devious,
manipulative,
crafty,
Machiavellian,
politic,
cautious
in the sense of designing
Definition
cunning and scheming
the wily cunning of a designing hypocrite
Synonyms
scheming,
plotting,
intriguing,
crooked (informal),
shrewd,
conspiring,
cunning,
sly,
astute,
treacherous,
unscrupulous,
devious,
wily,
crafty,
artful,
conniving,
Machiavellian,
deceitful

Nearby words of
conniving

  • connivance
  • connive
  • connive at something
  • conniving
  • connoisseur
  • connotation
  • connote

Related terms of
conniving

  • connive
  • connive at something

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