'Scheming' definitions:
Definition of 'scheming'
(from WordNet)
adjective
Used of persons; "the most calculating and selfish men in the community" [syn: calculating, calculative, conniving, scheming, shrewd]
adjective
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, scheming]
Definition of 'Scheming'
From: GCIDE
- Scheming \Schem"ing\, a. Given to forming schemes; artful; intriguing. -- {Schem"ing*ly}, adv. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Scheming'
From: 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. [1913 Webster]
- That wickedness which schemed, and executed, his destruction. --G. Stuart. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'scheming'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- acute,
- arch,
- artful,
- artifice,
- astute,
- Byzantine,
- 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,
- Machiavellian,
- Machiavellic,
- 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