Scheming

4 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  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.
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           That wickedness which schemed, and executed, his


           destruction.                             --G. Stuart.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Scheming \Schem"ing\, a.
     Given to forming schemes; artful; intriguing. --
     {Schem"ing*ly}, adv.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  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}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  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