Scheming
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English
Verb
scheming
- Present participle of scheme.
Adjective
Scheming (comparative more Scheming, superlative most Scheming)
- (pejorative) Tending to scheme.
Adjectives for Scheming
wily; political; amiable; nefarious; wicked; Willful.
Adverbs for Scheming
innocently; mischievously; childishly; pleasantly; mysteriously; secretly; openly; brazenly; maliciously; meanly; cleverly; politically; astutely; adroitly; madly; viciously; criminally; heartlessly; cattily; brutally; dangerously; lovingly; hatefully; successfully; artfully; ingeniously; cunningly; craftily; sharply; slyly; warily; unscrupulously; insidiously; disloyally; treacherously; thoughtfully; prudently.
Thesaurus
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
