Conniving in a sentence as an adjective

The sooner you ignore that conniving **** the happier you will live.

Not having this kind of information out there is a bad thing for employees and lovely for conniving bosses.

In any case, it makes his public apology feel conniving and insincere.

I am very uncomfortable with the culture of conniving and suspicion that seems to be rampant here.

Lots of stupid money, conniving VC and no standard for what constitutes an actual business.

Now those same morons, who run one of the great tech companies of our times, have decided that they will compete via the legal system and conniving business deals, instead of using technology.

Even better, with $60 million in his pocket, my womanizing, alcoholic, conniving cofounder suddenly found Jesus and now fancies himself a televangelist of sorts.

Somehow, just in the last decade, home buyers became so wily and conniving that they were able to trick all the professionals who's full time job it is to think about these things and have all the inside knowledge, resources, connections, etc?

While I try not to underestimate conniving boyfriends, girlfriends, spouses, friends, parents, siblings, children, and grandparents, I am reasonably confident they will not employ a ******* bot from def con when I have momentarily become separated from my phone.

By definition, such a forum will invite submissions from promoters who are, variously, supremely gifted, naive and unrealistic, crafty and conniving, or just hopeful founders who see this is their best funding mechanism, whether it turns out to be good, bad, or mediocre at it plays out.

She was probably holding her intel seat as leverage to get what she wanted from the MIC...I wouldn't be surprised if she was targeted because she was a conniving blocker who was using the position to her own personal advantage and the intel community wanted leverage over her position.

We think of evil acts as things perpetrated by conniving, malicious villains, but the reality is that evil acts like the holocaust were not perpetrated by cackling villains, but only happened because enough regular, otherwise perfectly nice people surrendered any personal responsibility for the larger implications of their work and contented themselves to "just follow orders".

Conniving definitions

adjective

acting together in secret toward a fraudulent or illegal end

See also: collusive

adjective

used of persons; "the most calculating and selfish men in the community"

See also: calculating calculative scheming shrewd