Conniving

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early 17th century: from French conniver or Latin connivere ‘shut the eyes (to)’, from con- ‘together’ + an unrecorded word related to nictare ‘to wink’.


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conniving (adj.)

"willfully blind or tolerant," 1783, present-participle adjective from connive. Earlier in this sense was connivent.