- collusive, conniving - acting together in secret toward a fraudulent or illegal end
Antonyms: overt, open (indirect, via covert)
- calculating, calculative, conniving, scheming, shrewd - used of persons; "the most calculating and selfish men in the community"
Antonym: soft (indirect, via hard)
- connive - encourage or assent to illegally or criminally
--1 is one way to assent, accede, acquiesce
Sample sentence:Derived form: noun connivance2
Somebody ----s something
- scheme, intrigue, connive - form intrigues (for) in an underhand manner
--2 is one way to plot
Sample sentences:Derived form: noun connivance1
Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s PP