To pretend to be ignorant of something in order to escape blame; to ignore a fault deliberately.
Jeremy Taylor
to connive at what it does not approve
Burke
In many of these, the directors were heartily concurring; in most of them, they were encouraging, and sometimes commanding; in all they were conniving.
Macaulay
The government thought it expedient, occasionally, to connive at the violation of this rule.
puhekieltä To open and close the eyes rapidly; to wink.
Spectator
The artist is to teach them how to nod judiciously, and to connive with either eye.