connivance
Tacit criminal partnership
Connivance is secret cooperation in wrongdoing, or deliberate failure to prevent something improper.
The word implies awareness and tacit consent rather than active participation: The fraud couldn't have continued without the connivance of bank officials.
Someone acting with the connivance of authorities has their unspoken approval or willful blindness.
Helping commit wrongdoing
- accompliceCrime's willing helper
- accessorySupplementary addition
- aidingProviding assistance to
- enablingMaking something feasible
facilitation · harboring · concealment · turning a blind eye · looking the other way · willful blindness · acquiescence · tolerance
Clandestine coordinated scheming
- plotStoryline or land parcel
- cabalScheming political faction
- schemeCalculated strategy, often secretive
- complicityShared criminal involvement
collaboration · confederacy · intrigue · machination · racketeering · syndicate · cartel · cover-up
Deliberate deception to conceal
- deceitDeliberate misleading of others
- duplicityDeliberate misleading behavior
- guileSly, strategic dishonesty
- cunningSly, scheming cleverness
craftiness · trickery · manipulation · chicanery · skulduggery · artifice · scheming · plotting
abetting
Helping commit wrongdoing
- accompliceCrime's willing helper
- accessorySupplementary addition
- aidingProviding assistance to
enabling · facilitation · harboring · concealment · turning a blind eye · looking the other way · willful blindness · acquiescence · tolerance · allowance
conspiracy
Clandestine coordinated scheming
- plotStoryline or land parcel
- cabalScheming political faction
- schemeCalculated strategy, often secretive
complicity · collaboration · confederacy · intrigue · machination · racketeering · syndicate · cartel · cover-up · corruption
subterfuge
Deliberate deception to conceal
- deceitDeliberate misleading of others
- duplicityDeliberate misleading behavior
- guileSly, strategic dishonesty
cunning · craftiness · trickery · manipulation · chicanery · skulduggery · artifice · scheming · plotting · underhandedness
implicit
Understood without being stated
- unspokenNot verbally expressed
- silentProducing no sound
- understoodGrasped the meaning
indirect · subtle · implied · wordless · unstated · inferred · assumed · unacknowledged · covert · secret
connivancewhistleblowing
Exposing hidden wrongdoing internally
opposition · resistance · intervention · exposure · denunciation
connivanceactive participation
Engaged contribution to something
perpetration · obstruction · prevention · ignorance · unawareness
connivancedisclosure
Act of revealing information
transparency · candor · openness · forthrightness · honesty