connivances
Underhanded cooperative deceits
Connivances are acts of secretly allowing or overlooking wrongdoing—tacit cooperation through deliberate inaction.
The word implies awareness without intervention: The fraud required the connivances of bank officials who looked the other way.
A connivance need not involve active participation; merely failing to prevent something you could stop qualifies.
Fraudulent secret cooperation
- plotStoryline or land parcel
- cabalScheming political faction
- intrigueSecret plotting or fascination
- machinationCrafty scheming, often hostile
scheme · syndicate · cartel · ring · network · alliance · cover-up · clandestine
Intentional criminal trickery
- trickeryDeliberate deception or fraud
- deceitDeliberate misleading of others
- guileSly, strategic dishonesty
- subterfugeDeliberate deception to conceal
chicanery · dupery · swindle · scam · artifice · pretense · sham · duplicity
Devising a secret plan
- stratagemDeceptive plan for advantage
- maneuveringSkillful directional control
- cunningSly, scheming cleverness
- ruseDeliberate act of deception
gambit · ploy · tactic · maneuver · craftiness · calculation · engineering · manipulation
Helping commit wrongdoing
- accompliceCrime's willing helper
- accessorySupplementary addition
- enablingMaking something feasible
- facilitationMaking tasks easier
condoning · overlooking · tolerance · guilt · involvement · participation · concealment · harboring
collusion
Fraudulent secret cooperation
machination · scheme · syndicate · cartel · ring · network · alliance · cover-up · clandestine · covert
fraud
Intentional criminal trickery
- trickeryDeliberate deception or fraud
- deceitDeliberate misleading of others
- guileSly, strategic dishonesty
subterfuge · chicanery · dupery · swindle · scam · artifice · pretense · sham · duplicity · misrepresentation
plotting
Devising a secret plan
- stratagemDeceptive plan for advantage
- maneuveringSkillful directional control
- cunningSly, scheming cleverness
ruse · gambit · ploy · tactic · maneuver · craftiness · calculation · engineering · manipulation · puppeteering
abetting
Helping commit wrongdoing
- accompliceCrime's willing helper
- accessorySupplementary addition
- enablingMaking something feasible
facilitation · condoning · overlooking · tolerance · guilt · involvement · participation · concealment · harboring · sheltering
connivancespublic disclosure
Revealing information openly
whistleblowing · exposure · confrontation · candor · openness
connivanceswhistleblowing
Exposing hidden wrongdoing internally
opposition · oppositions · resistance · interventions · intervention
connivancesintegrity
Moral soundness and consistency
honesty · uprightness · probity · rectitude · forthrightness