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scheming
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Adjective scheming has 2 senses
- scheming(s = adj.all) calculating, calculative, conniving, shrewd - used of persons; "the most calculating and selfish men in the community"
- scheming(s = adj.all) designing - concealing crafty designs for advancing your own interest; "a selfish and designing nation obsessed with the dark schemes of European intrigue"; "a scheming wife"; "a scheming gold digger"
OXFORD DICTIONARY
scheming, adj. & n.
--adj. artful, cunning, or deceitful.
--n. plots; intrigues.
--adj. artful, cunning, or deceitful.
--n. plots; intrigues.
Derivative
schemingly adv.
THESAURUS
scheming
Byzantine, Machiavellian, Machiavellic, acute, arch, artful, artifice, astute, cabal, cagey, calculating, canny, chiseling, clever, collusion, collusive, complicity, complot, confederacy, connivance, connivent, conniving, conspiracy, conspiring, contrivance, contriving, counterplot, covin, covinous, crafty, cunning, cute, deceitful, deep, deep-laid, deep-laid plot, designing, devious, diplomatic, disingenuous, duplicitous, engineering, false, falsehearted, feline, finagling, finesse, forsworn, foxy, frame-up, fraudulent, furtive, game, guileful, indirect, ingenious, insidious, insincere, intrigue, intriguing, inventive, knowing, little game, machination, maneuvering, manipulation, nefarious, packed deal, packed jury, pawky, perjured, planning, plot, plotting, politic, prearrangement, preconcertedness, premeditation, preordering, put-up job, ready, resourceful, rigged jury, rigging, scheme, schemery, serpentine, setup, sharp, shifty, shrewd, slick, slippery, sly, smooth, snaky, sneaky, sophistical, stacked deck, stealthy, stratagem, stratagemical, strategic, subtile, subtle, supple, surreptitious, tactical, treacherous, trick, trickish, tricksy, tricky, two-faced, uncandid, underhand, underhanded, underplot, unfrank, unsincere, untruthful, up to, vulpine, wary, web of intrigue, wily, wire-pulling
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