Usually means: Secretly allowed or helped wrongdoing.
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We found 13 dictionaries that define the word connived:

General (11 matching dictionaries)
  1. connived: Merriam-Webster
  2. connived: Collins English Dictionary
  3. connived: Vocabulary.com
  4. connived: Wordnik
  5. connived: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. connived: Wiktionary
  7. connived: Dictionary.com
  8. Connived: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  9. Connived: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  10. connived: FreeDictionary.org
  11. connived: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. connived: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. connived: Legal dictionary

(Note: See connive as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (connive)

verb:  (intransitive) To secretly cooperate with other people in order to commit a crime or other wrongdoing; to collude, to conspire.
verb:  (intransitive, botany, rare) Of parts of a plant: to be converging or in close contact; to be connivent.
verb:  (intransitive, obsolete) Often followed by at: to pretend to be ignorant of something in order to escape blame; to ignore or overlook a fault deliberately.
verb:  (intransitive, obsolete) To open and close the eyes rapidly; to wink.
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