conniver
Example Sentences
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A New Jersey mobster, an Albuquerque meth kingpin and a couple of suburban Russian spies later won my heart on cable, but it all started with a Stetson-wearing conniver on CBS each Friday night.
From New York Times ● Dec. 18, 2020
But Lincoln’s bumbling successor, Andrew Johnson, brought the conniver back out.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 12, 2018
So many things writ into him, saint, conniver, fallen soul, dreamer, and a laugh that comes at you like a roll of thunder.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 14, 2017
A psychiatrist with a lucrative pharmaceutical business, he turns out to have been as much a conniver as a connoisseur.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 11, 2015
“They didn’t mean well. The older one is an unpleasant conniver like her mother and the younger one is a simpleton. It never entered their heads to mean well.”
From "Ella Enchanted" by Gail Carson Levine
