Usually means: Scheming to secretly achieve goals.
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  1. conniving: Merriam-Webster
  2. conniving: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. conniving: Collins English Dictionary
  4. conniving: Vocabulary.com
  5. Conniving, conniving: Wordnik
  6. conniving: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. conniving: Wiktionary
  8. conniving: Dictionary.com
  9. conniving: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  10. Conniving: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  11. conniving: Rhymezone
  12. Conniving: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  13. conniving: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  14. conniving: FreeDictionary.org
  15. conniving: Mnemonic Dictionary
  16. conniving: TheFreeDictionary.com
  17. conniving: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

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

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. conniving: Urban Dictionary

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▸ adjective:  That connives; conspiratorial.

Similar:
scheming, collusive, covert, shrewd, calculating, hard, calculative, tricksy, cunning, intriguing, more...

Opposite:
honest, truthful, upfront

Types:
sly, cunning, crafty, guileful, wily, more...

Adjectives:
political, more, such, own, little, petty, dangerous, secret, literate, mutual, wicked

Colors:
    olive,     dark green,     charcoal,     burgundy,     midnight blue, more...



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Similar:
scheming, collusive, covert, shrewd, calculating, hard, calculative, tricksy, cunning, intriguing, more...

Opposite:
honest, truthful, upfront

Types:
sly, cunning, crafty, guileful, wily, more...

Adjectives:
political, more, such, own, little, petty, dangerous, secret, literate, mutual, wicked

Colors:
    olive,     dark green,     charcoal,     burgundy,     midnight blue, more...



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