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Definition: Conniving |
ConnivingAdjective1. Acting together in secret toward a fraudulent or illegal end. 2. Used of persons; "the most calculating and selfish men in the community". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "conniving" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1509. (references) |
Synonyms: ConnivingSynonyms: calculating (adj), calculative (adj), collusive (adj), scheming (adj), shrewd (adj). (additional references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | With your charm and my conniving, there's nothing to worry about. (Happy Go Lucky; writing credit: Walter DeLeon; Melvin Frank) | |
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Books | |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Economic History | Bolivia | Until further dramatic changes are undertaken, bribes will continue to be paid by hapless and/or conniving businesses to move their paperwork faster through the bureaucratic maze or to gain contracts, and evasion of taxes and duties will remain a common practice, but the new administration is determined to address these problems vigorously. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| Speaker | Phrase(s) |
Dennis Miller | If Americans are to grow as a people, they need to think of Martha Stewart not as a conniving bitch but, rather, as a deceitful bastard. |
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| "Conniving" is generally used as a lexical verb (-ing form) -- approximately 84.62% of the time. "Conniving" is used about 26 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Lexical Verb (-ing form) | 84.62% | 22 | 74,468 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 15.38% | 4 | 175,879 |
| Total | 100.00% | 26 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
conniving | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "conniving"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||
German | duldend (acquiescing), darüber hinwegsehend. (various references) | ||||||||||
Italian | connivente. (various references) | ||||||||||
Pig Latin | onnivingcay коварный (catty, crafty, designing, guileful, insidious, jesuitic, jesuitical, subtle, treacherous, vulpine, wily), лукавый (pawky, wily). (various references) | ||||||||||
Misspellings | |
"Conniving" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: canniving, Cannovan, coneiving, coniving, cuniving. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "conniving" (pronounced kunī"ving) |
| 4 | -ī" v i ng | arriving, depriving, deriving, diving, driving, jiving, reviving, striving, surviving, thriving. |
| 3 | -v i ng | absolving, achieving, approving, behaving, believing, braving, calving, caregiving, carving, caving, conceiving, conserving, craving, curving, deceiving, delving, deserving, disapproving, disbelieving, dissolving, earthmoving, engraving, evolving, forgiving, giving, grieving, halving, having, heaving, improving, interleaving, interweaving, involving, leaving, lifesaving, living, loving, misbehaving, misgiving, moving, observing, paving, perceiving, preserving, proving, raving, receiving, relieving, reliving, removing, reserving, resolving, retrieving, revolving, revving, saving, serving, shaving, shelving, shoving, sieving, skydiving, solving, starving, staving, thanksgiving, thieving, unbelieving, undeserving, unforgiving, unnerving, unswerving, waiving, waving, weaving. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-g-i-i-n-n-n-o-v" | |
-2 letters: coining, conning, voicing. | |
-3 letters: congii, coning, coving, inning, vicing, vining. | |
-4 letters: coign, conin, covin, icing, incog, inion, ionic, ninon, vinic. | |
-5 letters: cion, coin, coni, conn, icon, vino. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-g-i-i-n-n-n-o-v" | |
+1 letter: convincing. | |
+2 letters: coinventing. | |
+3 letters: convincingly, noncognitive, reconvincing, unconvincing. | |
+5 letters: convincingness, unconvincingly. | |
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| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Usage: Modern 4. Usage: Commercial | 5. Quotations: Non-fiction 6. Quotations: Spoken 7. Usage Frequency 8. Expressions: Internet | 9. Translations: Modern 10. Derivations 11. Rhymes 12. Anagrams | 13. Bibliography |
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