(n.) A secret agreement and cooperation for a fraudulent or deceitful purpose; a playing into each other's hands; deceit; fraud; cunning.
(n.) An agreement between two or more persons to defraud a person of his rights, by the forms of law, or to obtain an object forbidden by law.
Example Sentences:
(1) His reports alleged active, sustained and covert collusion to subvert the election which, if confirmed, could constitute treason.
(2) At the end of the hearing Trump pointed to the testimony of James Clapper, the former director of national intelligence, claiming that Clapper had “reiterated what everybody, including the fake media already knows – there is ‘no evidence’ of collusion with Russia and Trump”.
(3) An official report into the police shooting of Mark Duggan says "a perception of collusion" was created by officers sitting together in a room for hours writing up their accounts of the incident.
(4) Sulser said no evidence had been found of the collusion claims but confirmed that Spain's executive committee member Angel Villar Llona and Qatar's Mohamed Bin Hammam and only been contacted by letter and not interviewed in person.
(5) Cages, watchtower and 37 graves: inside an abandoned migrant camp in Malaysia Read more Human rights groups have long accused Thai authorities of collusion in the trafficking industry, but officials have routinely denied the claims.
(6) The argument about academies and free schools is one thing, but this runs much deeper: even if they support what the government is doing to schools, people could be forgiven for expecting consistency, transparency and a model of government whereby ministers might understand that supposedly independent bodies have to be seen to be so, and that even the appearance of collusion can be toxic.
(7) The final stages of the race have been marked by allegations of corruption and collusion that led to a backlash against the British media among some Fifa executives.
(8) He turns up over and over again WikiLeaks published troves of hacked emails last year that damaged Hillary Clinton’s campaign and is suspected of having cooperated with Russia through third parties, according to recent congressional testimony by the former CIA director John Brennan , who also said the adamant denials of collusion by Assange and Russia were disingenuous.
(9) The Liberal Democrats, the only major political party not implicated in charges of collusion with past bribery on arms deals, last night joined anti-corruption campaigners in welcoming the findings: David Howarth, their justice spokesman, said "This is a devastating report."
(10) Lederer, a physician, objects to this application of patient autonomy because it might place the surgeon in legal jeopardy of collusion in suicide and would undermine the principles of nonmaleficence and mutual trust.
(11) Jared Kushner The president’s son-in-law is known to be a person of interest in the FBI investigation into possible collusion between the Trump campaign and Moscow.
(12) But the alliance was pulled apart after regulators and judges rapped its members for collusion.
(13) Liberal and Labor have moved close together on cruelty to refugees to cutting funding to universities and on increasing coal exports, so I am not in the least bit surprised you’ve got this collusion,” she said.
(14) The recording of the chief minister at an Alice Springs Country Liberal party (CLP) branch meeting makes it clear he maintains he has evidence of political collusion between an unnamed senior police officer and a member of his cabinet.” Kelly called on Giles to provide evidence to the police minister if he had any, and to retract his statements in full and apologise if he did not.
(15) The diagnosis is often offered to doctors by patients; and we consider attribution, stigma, collusion between doctor and patient, and abnormal illness behaviour in this context.
(16) The retired master-spy was asked about an interview he had given in March, when he said there was no evidence of collusion between the Trump camp and Russia by the time he left his post on 20 January.
(17) Allegations of collusion resurfaced after anti-fascist protesters told the Guardian they had been "tortured by police" after clashes with Golden Dawn supporters.
(18) Miliband concedes that he does support certain coalition policies – on ID cards, prison policy, and an inquiry into British collusion in the torture of terrorist suspects, although he quickly adds, "I know my brother more than anyone else, and I know he would never sanction torture, implicitly or explicitly."
(19) Losing six children is tragedy enough, but through her own act of collusion in a bungled plot?
(20) Bickford said giving judges rather than cabinet ministers responsibility for authorising sensitive operations would "reduce the risk of perception of collusion … and limit the room for accusations of political interference."
Squirm
Definition:
(v. i.) To twist about briskly with contor/ions like an eel or a worm; to wriggle; to writhe.
Example Sentences:
(1) The talk coming from senior Tories – at least some of whom have the grace to squirm when questioned on this topic – suggesting that it's all terribly complicated, that it was a long time ago and that even SS members were, in some ways, themselves victims, is uncomfortably close to the kind of prattle we used to hear from those we called Holocaust revisionists.
(2) He cut in and provided a pass for Sneijder, whose shot squirmed wide off Rodríguez; he then clipped a ball in that just evaded Sneijder; and soon after that he appealed for another penalty.
(3) And yet for all his anti-establishment credentials, Mr Galloway is as practised as any of his New Labour enemies at squirming away from awkward questions.
(4) If the thought of eating fermented cabbage makes you squirm, then perhaps you're not ready for it – but plenty of others are.
(5) The Spurs were missing simple shots but insidiously squirmed their way back into the game, with James returning to Earth and Leonard in fine shooting form.
(6) But it squirms about conceding them to people it does not approve of.
(7) [Parkinson's] makes me squirm and it makes my pants ride up so my socks are showing and my shoes fall off and I can't get the food up to my mouth when I want to."
(8) President Andrzej Duda and Beata Szydło, the prime minister, take their orders from him and squirm for his approval.
(9) He could only squirm in the stands as Robbie Keane lofted the clearest chance of the game into the face of Mark Schwarzer, who also foiled Kuyt and Torres.
(10) Bodies squirmed with the embarrassment of eye contact and personal honesty.
(11) But the wording was left deliberately ambiguous and before the ink was dry on the statement, senior German officials, being grilled in Brussels by gobsmacked German journalists, were squirming and heavily qualifying the promise to shore up banks directly.
(12) In the last photos of her, taken barely 10 minutes before the Russian bombs landed, she shows off a new bracelet and freshly painted nails with glee, then squeezes a kiss from her squirming baby sister.
(13) For Cahun was a writer, first and foremost – and no amount of artistic squirming could change that.
(14) The Friday afternoon audience for the film of John Green’s The Fault In Our Stars was squirming with more anticipation than any audience I’ve seen since the first screening of Endless Love in July 1981.
(15) From the rebound, Lennon's shot deflected off Colback, hit the post and squirmed to safety.
(16) But corporations, which thrive on their sense of power and control, hate nothing more than having to say sorry unless they are forced to do so because they are squirming on the end of a hook for doing something particularly reprehensible.
(17) With five minutes remaining Aleksandar Kolarov took aim from outside the area and hit the attempt straight at Jonathan Bond, only for the ball to squirm under the goalkeeper and into the net.
(18) A Russia free-kick from just inside the halfway line lands evades a Spanish defender and land at Pavlychenko's feet about eight yards out, but he squirms his shot just wide.
(19) Team Miliband squirms a bit at this, not entirely sure if it might not be so.
(20) Branson has even smoked weed with Sam, a revelation that continues to make his son squirm.