1. to secretly allow or help with wrongdoing; to conspire
2. to pretend not to notice something wrong; to turn a blind eye

Examples

• The guard connives with prisoners to smuggle contraband.
• She connives at her son’s cheating by not reporting it.
• The manager connives in the accounting fraud.
• He connives with his friends to skip class.
• The official connives at corruption in his department.
• She refuses to connive in their dishonest scheme.