connive
C1CEFR level
60/100Rarity: rare
FormalRegister
General verb
To secretly cooperate in or conspire towards a wrongdoing.
Officials had connived at the smuggling in exchange for a share of the profits.
Law verb
To conspire secretly, or to deliberately overlook a wrongdoing.
Officials who connived at the smuggling were prosecuted alongside the smugglers themselves.
Rarity runs from 0 (a word everyone knows) to 100 (almost never seen outside specialist or literary writing). Level is the word's real difficulty on the CEFR scale, from A1 to C2.
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