What is "connivery"

Usage examples of "connivery".

All his rapacity and connivery had alienated his nobles and he had not even the chance of vindicating his plans by a great victory.

I forgot all the times that manipulating swine like Silius Italicus had outplayed me on the draughtboard of connivery.

So that by the time Makita was depurged, he had a four-inch-thick stack of folders within which were revealed the peccadillos, petty and not so petty, thievery, connivery, and outright bribery by perhaps two dozen bureaucrats of the first and second dan.

So that by the time Makita was depurged, he had a four-inch-thick stack of folders within which were revealed the peccadillos, petty and not so petty, thiev­ery, connivery, and outright bribery by perhaps two dozen bu­reaucrats of the first and second dan.