It was one of those rare smiles that had nothing behind it, nothing sinister, malicious or conniving, it was a true smile. |
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When not preaching or conniving, he joined in the general singing and dancing with consummate skill. |
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All the lies, deceit, conniving and games I endured while I was with him have made me frightened to date again. |
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It didn't display any fiendish goblin or conniving fay, which disappointed me. |
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A drink I could sip at a bar like a real alcoholic broad and not some conniving college student who snuck in. |
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A pair of baboons acted precisely like conniving con artists in cooperating to deceive a third. |
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Companies' accounts were misleading, their auditors conniving, their lawyers conspiring, their bankers inept. |
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Some University of Zambia students were allegedly conniving with staff there to change results and another group had problems with the bursaries. |
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Every person who has ever told the camera that is always a conniving, manipulative sociopath. |
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I couldn't imagine contemporary female audiences buying a plot wherein conniving men turn their wives into homemaking robots. |
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I don't really care about catching up on how my beloved soap characters have been scheming and conniving. |
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Some accuse the manufacturers and retailers of conniving in the premature death of old technology. |
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Scott is the Roger Dodger of the film's title, a shark, a venomous, unpleasant, conniving, self-consciously chauvinistic pig. |
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The nation as a whole debates whether the schoolgirls are media victims, conniving consumerists, or symptoms of a sick society. |
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As the two lovers exit, Helena is left onstage alone with her conniving thoughts. |
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With no job, no home and very few friends, the ever-resourceful and conniving Mia is secretly on the warpath. |
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The moments when the camera zooms in on Max's conniving face usually sparked a chortle of laughter from my son. |
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He really did love the conniving little chit, and her betrayal broke his heart. |
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And scarily, it is green activists who are conniving at the abuse and murder of rural Britain. |
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We have handed special advisers immense power by conniving in their attempts to manage the flow of news. |
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None of these people want to be fingered for conniving in lying to the Australian people, let alone on a matter like this. |
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But what was less explicable than this working-class defeatism was to hear those who regarded themselves as progressive liberals conniving in it. |
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Cartoons were once populated by henpecked husbands and conniving wives in hair curlers. |
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She was strict, manipulative, and conniving, but she was also generous with her abilities and caring. |
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The two were found to be conniving with an inter-state flesh trade gang, whose three members were arrested by the police last Friday. |
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He couldn't help but chuckle lightly at his sneaky, conniving girlfriend as he sat there. |
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But many of the slights, misunderstandings and, yes, conniving, are typical of any bureaucracy, as officials pursue a range of different agendas. |
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She was certainly clever enough, but her nature was not conniving or manipulative in any way. |
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In China, on-air conniving by reality-show contestants could be lost in the fog of political correctness. |
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If you look beyond the dehumanising stereotypes to the hard facts, it emerges that females in jail are not conniving slags. |
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They based the ridiculous behaviour around the same conniving behaviour performed in the sisterhood of all elementary school girls. |
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The women are made out to be conniving and willing to use their sexiness to trap a man into marriage. |
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Never before had he come across a woman that was so similar to himself, so conniving, and ruthless in the attainment of her goals. |
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He was an okay guy as far as basketball went, but in other areas of life, the guy was conniving and deceitful. |
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Those who have been burnt look at it with contempt, a reminder of conniving luck. |
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She's good at conniving and scheming and she knows it, no doubt she will twist the police against me. |
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He always ends up looking smug like he's just done something evil, or conniving like he's planning something evil. |
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But it is not your fault that a conniving temptress has ensnared you. |
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Equally protean and conniving, she is his partner in crime and spirit. |
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They are scheming and conniving and sometimes thoughtlessly cruel, too. |
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Thoughts, erratic and conniving, in a word evil, ran through her mind. |
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I am fierce, powerful, ambitious, and if need be, conniving. |
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Is it the dishonest claimants or those members of the professions who stand to gain so much and lose so little by conniving at their lack of scruple? |
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I feel that those who portray an aggressive, vulgar, debased attitude towards life are conniving in that life, and I think publishers should reject them. |
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His decade-long struggle to replace Blair as prime minister was never an open political contest, but a conniving, cowardly and petty bid for personal power. |
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Have you ever heard of a federal government conniving in defrauding provincial tax? |
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He presents them as such a conniving, scheming rogues' gallery of careerist and morally dishonest operators that one wonders how anyone could ever have taken them seriously. |
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The handwriting clearly belonged to an unstable, conniving, furtive, shallow creep. |
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The jury heard dozens of conversations that showed him as foul-mouthed, boastful and conniving. |
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And with adultery does go a measure of lying, deceit, and conniving that tells quite a bit about character. |
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Are they saying that all of these volunteers were involved in conniving to skim money into Liberal coffers? |
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Several Member States are actually guilty of conniving with the perpetrators of massacres. |
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The negotiations, the planning, the strategies and the conniving are all laid out beforehand. |
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But, being the conniving old so-and-so he is, he went one better. |
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Now it's trying to prevent exposure of its prewar conniving. |
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Manipulative and conniving, Evie has driven a wedge between Tracy and her mother, Melanie, while at the same time insinuating herself into Tracy's home and school life. |
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DeVito revels in being comically conniving, and he is again convincing. |
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It featured some horrendous claims about anthropologists abusing a South American tribe and even conniving in their deaths from introduced diseases. |
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It means the remorseless destruction of local distinctiveness, choice and opportunity by international mega-brands and the rapacious, conniving corporations that own them. |
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He defeated what was left of the Tatars, mostly by conniving with leaders of what was left of the Tatars. |
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Why, then, are we led to believe that her conniving ways are so ineffectual and misdirected? |
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Absent magic, we get conniving politicians, close-minded scolds, flavorless marriages, and the occasional heroin junkie. |
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The image of the boatmen as aggressive bargainers corresponds to a wider imagery that figures in depictions of the Orient as mischievous and conniving. |
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In midlife, the boys attain the highest reaches of power and find that all the years of striving and conniving have left them feeling empty and unfulfilled. |
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And the not-so-good people are conniving, craven and corruptible. |
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Furthermore, the interest of candidates to organize future General Assembly sessions might lead to potential conflicts of interest and to conniving decisions. |
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In some ways it is a technical bill, but it is representative of a misguided and hurtful quasi-socialist ideology with a lot of old style political conniving thrown in. |
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Then there is another 'state' which, in conniving silence, exercises its power by guaranteeing easy money, terrorising honest people and buying out the silence of its subjects with threats and weapons. |
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They accused the three monks of conniving with Thich Quang Do to incite farmers and peasants to protest against the State and ordered them to cease all contacts with him. |
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Anyone who contests the importance of evaluation is being conniving. |
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But will she be the last conniving little cow standing? |
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Muddle, conniving and self-seeking have their part to play in politics. |
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Magma and the Triton club, a ten years relationship that still ravishes both the band, so happy to play there, and its conniving and familiar audience. |
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A sexy, sexual, conniving, social-media mentioning, sexy baby spider! |
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Last but not least, there's Honey Brown, an impious, conniving, gold-digging stripper who is tired of living like a second-class citizen. |
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John is a lawyer: slick, conniving and low. |
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Larry the Cucumber, playing the role of Daniel, finds himself in deep trouble thanks to the King's conniving wisemen, played with zest by a trio of slippery scallions. |
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And as conniving Stiffy Bung, his transformation into the archetypal 1930s woman was complete. |
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Now Tony Blair, far from leading a national debate on the benefits of Europe, is conniving disgracefully in a dangerous and populist attack by Conservatives and the media on the European Convention on Human Rights. |
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It is, however, patronizing and defending South Korea, afraid that the true aim sought by it in conniving at South Korea's nuclear weapons development should be brought to light. |
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Mousey is by turns sweet and vicious, conniving and vulnerable, at some moments the villain, at others the victim. |
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Was she trying to insinuate that these people were doing all they could to defraud the employment insurance system by conniving to hide a voluntary departure? |
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In L'histoire de Paul et Clara we meet Paul, a conniving young student who sends away for a Build-It-Yourself Double who will do everything Paul can't face doing. |
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Eight of them are very smart and have very performing therapeutic properties. They have been baptized Dominique, Désirée, Précieuse, Rigolette, a little like as many beneficient and conniving fairies. |
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For the Conservative Party members to suggest that there was conniving which took place to allow this to go ahead and that they were tricked, I do not know what they are saying really. |
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The princess is indeed comely, but she's also conniving and cunning. |
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There was widespread distrust of elected politicians and what governments get up to when they start talking to each other, conniving arrangements and deals together and bypassing the democratic processes. |
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More recently, we asked for the referendum to be held without fraud and without violence by the anti-independence militias which are conniving with the Indonesian regime. |
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While this plot line has potential for complex character development, the Dawg and the Diva essentially live up to their titles by doing predictably conniving things. |
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