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Scheming

adjective

Used of persons. Synonyms: calculating, calculative, conniving, shrewd.

Concealing crafty designs for advancing your own interest. Synonym: designing. "A scheming wife" , "A scheming gold digger"

Scheme

verb

(past & past part. schemed; pres. part. scheming)

Form intrigues (for) in an underhand manner. Synonyms: connive, intrigue.

Devise a system or form a scheme for.

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"Scheming" Quotes from Famous Books

... as the door closed upon Mrs. Dinks, "it is a scheming, artful woman. Her son has no money, and I doubt if he ever will have any. Boniface will be implacable. I know him. He is capable of seeing his daughter suffer. Fanny has made a frightful mistake. ...

— Trumps • George William Curtis

... judgment upon her physical charms from a point of view obtained in his club window, but always there had been in his mind the reservation that she was not the sort of woman he would care to marry. Now he was beginning to know her for what she really was: a scheming amazon who would sacrifice anything to appease a pride that had been wounded by his frequent and disdainful refusals ...

— Her Weight in Gold • George Barr McCutcheon

... unfortunate day for Mr. Tescheron and his family when I isolated him among the scheming natives of Hoboken, that seat of wonderful mechanical learning. When the birds had been shipped to Stukeville, Mrs. Tescheron insisted that the family return home at once, and, if necessary, take the consequences of a terrible publicity. Life without her friends had become unbearable. ...

— Cupid's Middleman • Edward B. Lent

... he could hope for. All his scheming, all his courage, all his peril, would but result in the patronage of a great man like Major Vickers. His heart, big with love, with self-denial, and with hopes of a fair future, would have this flattering unction laid to it. He had performed a prodigy of skill and daring, ...

— For the Term of His Natural Life • Marcus Clarke

... to say, when I left you and Scheming Jack in that funny little stone house of yours in Corfu, and got to Palermo, I found Lady Agatha and Chinkie there at the Hotel des Palmes and the yacht being coaled from a tramp steamer's bunkers in ...

— The Prairie Wife • Arthur Stringer

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