Scheme \Scheme\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Schemed; p. pr. & vb. n.
Scheming.]
To make a scheme of; to plan; to design; to project; to plot.
[1913 Webster]
That wickedness which schemed, and executed, his
destruction. --G. Stuart.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Scheming \Schem"ing\, a.
Given to forming schemes; artful; intriguing. --
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
scheming
adj 1: used of persons; "the most calculating and selfish men in
the community" [syn: calculating, calculative, conniving,
shrewd]
2: concealing crafty designs for advancing your own interest;
"a selfish and designing nation obsessed with the dark
schemes of European intrigue"- W.Churchill; "a scheming
wife"; "a scheming gold digger" [syn: designing]
WordNet (r) 2.0
127 Moby Thesaurus words for "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
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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