consorting
Spending time together
Consorting is keeping company with someone, usually with negative implications.
The word typically appears when the association is disapproved of or suspicious: consorting with criminals, consorting with the enemy.
Police might investigate someone for consorting with known drug dealers.
The neutral sense of simply spending time together exists but is rare in modern usage.
Casual social interaction
- fraternizingAssociating informally, often inappropriately
- associatingMentally linking concepts
- networkingBuilding professional relationships
- interactingCommunicating or affecting mutually
socializing · engaging · conversing · communicating · liaising · bonding · befriending · hobnobbing
Associating informally, often inappropriately
- colludingSecretly cooperating for deception
- conspiringPlotting secretly with others
- schemingCrafty and calculating
- plottingDevising a secret plan
conniving · collaborating · cooperating · aiding · abetting · trafficking · associating · collaborating
Forming a pact
- affiliatingJoining an organization formally
- partneringJoining with another cooperatively
- confederatingJoining in formal alliance
- joiningLinking into one
uniting · leaguing · banding · coalescing · federating · combining · merging · collaborating
mingling
Casual social interaction
- fraternizingAssociating informally, often inappropriately
- associatingMentally linking concepts
- networkingBuilding professional relationships
interacting · socializing · engaging · conversing · communicating · liaising · bonding · befriending · hobnobbing · mixing
fraternizing
Associating informally, often inappropriately
- colludingSecretly cooperating for deception
- conspiringPlotting secretly with others
- schemingCrafty and calculating
plotting · conniving · collaborating · cooperating · aiding · abetting · trafficking · associating · collaborating · cavorting
allying
Forming a pact
- affiliatingJoining an organization formally
- partneringJoining with another cooperatively
- confederatingJoining in formal alliance
joining · uniting · leaguing · banding · coalescing · federating · combining · merging · collaborating · cooperating
consortingavoiding
Deliberately staying clear
shunning · dissociating · distancing · ostracizing · isolating
consortingdisagreeing
Holding opposing opinions
opposing · differing · clashing · quarreling · feuding