connivance

[US]/kə'naɪv(ə)ns/
[UK]/kəˈnaɪvəns/
Frequency: Very High

Translation

n. tyst tillåtelse; villighet att förbise eller tillåta något
Word Forms

Example Sentences

done with the connivance of (done in connivance with)

utfört med underlåtelse (utfört i underlåtelse med)

this infringement of the law had taken place with the connivance of officials.

detta brott mot lagen hade inträffat med underlåtelse från tjänstemän.

He tried to bribe the police into connivance.

Han försökte muta polisen till medverkan.

The criminals could not have escaped without your connivance.

Kriminella kunde inte ha flytt utan er underlåtelse.

to act in connivance with someone

agera i samförstånd med någon

to turn a blind eye to connivance

se mellan fingrarna med underlåtelse

Real-world Examples

With police connivance, they pressured her to leave.

Med polisens medverkan pressade de henne att lämna.

Source: The Economist (Summary)

Anyway, many migrants who come ashore in Italy disappear north before being identified—with the connivance of the Italian authorities.

Trots allt försvinner många migranter som når land i Italien norrut innan de kan identifieras – med de italienska myndigheternas medverkan.

Source: The Economist (Summary)

This man penetrated to your very door by their connivance.

Den här mannen trängde in genom din dörr genom deras medverkan.

Source: Selected Works of O. Henry

If she was innocent of connivance in the crime, it was concocted by her, and by her only as she stated.

Om hon var oskyldig till medverkan i brottet, var det hon som hittade på det, och bara hon som hon påstod.

Source: Murder at the golf course

It would be useful, but almost impossible, to mark all the cards, and it would mean the connivance at least of the croupier.

Det skulle vara användbart, men nästan omöjligt, att markera alla korten, och det skulle innebära åtminstone croupierens medverkan.

Source: Casino Royale of the 007 series

" Then you consider that Madame Beroldy was wrongly acquitted? That in actual fact she was guilty of connivance in her husband's murder" ?

” Så du anser att Madame Beroldy frikändes felaktigt? Att hon i själva verket var skyldig till medverkan i sin makes mord?”

Source: Murder at the golf course

Paul was deposed and murdered with the likely connivance of his son Alexander the First, who was torn all his life between his grandmother's liberalism and his father's conservatism.

Paul avsattes och mördadades med stor sannolikhet med sin sons, Alexander den Förste, medverkan, som hela sitt liv var revrad mellan sin mormors liberalism och sin fars konservatism.

Source: The rise and fall of superpowers.

One day there was disclosed an alarming breech of this rule, surely a case of Teutonic connivance—during the night four men had grown hair upon their faces.

En dag avslöjades en alarmerande överträdelse av denna regel, säkert ett fall av tysk medverkan – under natten hade fyra män fått hår på sina ansikten.

Source: Beauty and Destruction (Part 2)

" ... dead? Why, to plant another rose on Tommen's council. Are you blind or bought? Rosby stood in her way, so she put him in his grave. With your connivance" .

” ... död? Varför, för att plantera en annan ros på Tommens råd. Är du blind eller köpt? Rosby stod i hennes väg, så hon lade honom i hans grav. Med din medverkan” .

Source: A Song of Ice and Fire: A Feast for Crows (Bilingual Edition)

The British ministry, with indifference if not connivance, permitted rams and ships to be built in British docks and allowed them to escape to play havoc under the Confederate flag with American commerce.

Den brittiska regeringen, med likgiltighet om inte medverkan, tillät fartyg och skepp att byggas i brittiska varv och tillät dem att fly för att härja med amerikansk handel.

Source: American history

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