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    conniving


    1. Tygo, all this is consistent with the tales of what they look like and their being conniving rascals who more than anything else like to play pranks on us humans


    2. Cruzel was just evil and conniving, sly and political and didn't fit in


    3. The arrival of Caroline’s car broke their pleasant pastimes, especially as she walked by the car with a conniving grin, waving a mini cassette victoriously above her head


    4. She was a conniving little bitch


    5. Deceiving his father had cost Jacob dearly in that he was forced to leave his home, he lost his beloved mother and had to start all over again, but in all his dealings thereafter, he was honest, and this brought him sons and great wealth at the expense of a conniving, cheating Laban


    6. what's left over is this malicious, conniving, self-obsessed, and


    7. done something as conniving as his manner suggested


    8. It is history that some business entities were indeed conniving and dishonest, but with closer scrutiny those were usually subsidized by government and inescapably suffered consequences


    9. It seemed as though an imposter slipped into Angela’s body the moment she crossed the door jamb into the main foyer – the alter ego of the vicious, conniving person June struggled with on a daily basis


    10. ―Did Can Martin know about your meat dealings?‖ Skeets had a problem believing that the conniving rancher wasn‘t in on the entire operation

    11. Estulin discusses the conniving greed of a group of people that have been around for centuries – I should correct that to type, since I don’t believe you will find anyone still living who was around when Christ threw the moneychangers out of the temple


    12. Mr Jay then outlined a plan that would keep the job afloat, I came alive again and the red mist cleared, time enough later to settle with them two conniving bastards, Donavan and Crow


    13. He does have a conniving mind


    14. What a conniving, lying bastard! A worm turned in Jillian's stomach She drove to the Castle after her shift and spoke to the receptionist


    15. Still, if we go with tradition, the Ferengi are most in line with the Book, back stabbing and conniving though they may be


    16. The conniving young girl realized that


    17. She had called him a conniving, manipulative, cruel man


    18. ‘Suraya? As in your daughter Suraya?’ How could he want to send me off alone with that conniving woman?


    19. And he was so mad at her conniving that he was determined to ruin her life after they broke up


    20. She is such a conniving bitch!”

    21. “You"re one real conniving son of a


    22. stepmother’s conniving demeanor when he wasn’t even her kid


    23. He’d been a conniving bastard all year, cocky as


    24. Oak's attention was caught by the entrance of Rancor, his expression confident, cloying, and conniving


    25. That cunning, conniving old bastard Rosen! He'd cut off the calls to the training group, even messages! Must send him a Thank-You card, the devious SOB, Lester smiled


    26. A conniving hypocrite


    27. Who knew conniving could be so much stress


    28. It is a book that draws evil people to it: by promising them adventure: and instead giving them double-dealing, conniving, secrecy, cowardice, betrayal, plotting, secrets plans to kill other people, evil, hate, filth, and corruption


    29. Their unsleeping evil of secret conniving and plotting and orchestrating never stops


    30. Lori’s face took a conniving look of self pride, “Why honey, I made him into the beast he is today

    31. “Until one of you conniving jackals mans up enough to kill me, I rule and what I say goes! You do not question my motives or actions!”


    32. No call for help was sent out because you were underhanded and conniving!”


    33. "That woman is a conniving wench who had wanted to force my hand in marriage


    34. He had to be careful—extremely careful, for women were very complex creatures and could be tremendously conniving as well


    35. He had hated that woman ever since he had found out how conniving she was but he would never have wished her dead


    36. “Dick Tesser is the same conniving son of a bitch his father was,” Joan announced


    37. “I don't see how he was conniving,” I said


    38. To the objection that this is conniving at self-delusion by the investor, we may answer that on the whole he is likely to fare better by overlooking the price variations of high-grade bonds than by trying to take advantage of them and thus transforming himself into a trader


    39. In the investment business in particular this is a critical teaching, simply because the investment area is full of Bernie Madoff-like characters who will steal you blind, as well as those of a less insidious, but just as insincere, phony, and conniving class of individual that can be found in any business


    40. The Butcher already had his gun out, and it was pointed at the guy in his underwear, aimed at his balls, but then Sullivan moved it up to the heart, if the conniving bastard had one

    41. The agent’s face soured, but before he could reply, Timmons roared, “That conniving bitch!”


    42. The story of Eve, adapted from a Cosmopolitan short story, is well known—a ruthless, conniving ingénue, Eve Harrington (Anne Baxter), insinuates herself into the life and career of a legendary, aging Broadway star, Margo Channing (Bette Davis), wrecking the lives of all those she touches, as she claws her way to the very pinnacle of theatrical stardom


    43. A ruthless, conniving ingénue insinuates her way into the inner circle of a legendary, aging Broadway star, leaving wrecked lives and shattered relationships in her wake, as she claws her way to the very pinnacle of theatrical stardom


    44. This was exactly what Sir Thomas and Edmund had been separately conniving at, as each proved to the other by the sympathetic alacrity with which they both advised Mrs


    45. Smith, not only with conniving at a conduct improper in itself, because it could only lead to rejection of the arrangement growing out of it, but insinuates that he was the principal actor in the scene


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    Synonyms for "conniving"

    calculating calculative conniving scheming shrewd collusive

    "conniving" definitions

    acting together in secret toward a fraudulent or illegal end


    acting with a specific goal