connive

/kuh-NYVE/verb

to secretly allow or cooperate in wrongdoing

The clerk connived with movers to loot the warehouse.
Synonyms
conspire, collude, scheme
Memory hook
connivere (wink): wrongdoing waved through with a wink.

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