Scheming

Synonyms for "scheming" (185 found)

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Closest matches (37)

acute arch artful artifice astute byzantine cabal cagey calculating canny cautious chiseling clever collusion collusive complicity complot confederacy connivance connivent

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conniving conspiracy

Noun(7 words)

bamboozling borgia calculating conning conniving conspiracy conspire

Adjective(8 words)

cacklycalculated movecalculated plancalculating calculative cleverer conniving conspiratorial

Strong matches (56)

conspiring contrivance contriving counterplot covin covinous crafty cunning cute deceitful deep deep-laiddeep-laid plotdesigning devious diplomatic disingenuous duplicitous engineering false

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falsehearted feline finagling finesse forsworn foxyframe upframe-up fraudulent furtive game guileful indirect ingenious insidious insincere intrigue intriguing inventive

Verb(2 words)

cozened intrigued

Noun(12 words)

craftiness crafty cunning deceptive devious deviousness diddling guile hatching hoodwinking insidiousness intrigue

Adjective(3 words)

crookeder designing knavish

Related words (92)

knowinglittle gamemachiavellian machiavellic machination maneuvering manipulation nefariouspacked dealpacked jurypawky perjured planning plot plotting politic prearrangement preconcertedness premeditation preordering

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put up jobput-up jobready resourcefulrigged juryrigging scheme schemery serpentine setup sharp shifty shrewd slick slippery sly smooth snaky sneaky sophisticalstacked deckstealthy stratagem stratagemical strategic subtile subtle supple surreptitious tactical treacherous trick trickish tricksy trickytwo facedtwo-faced uncandid underhand underhanded underplot unfrank unscrupulous unsincere untruthfulup tovulpine waryweb of intriguewilywire pullingwire-pulling

Noun(14 words)

machinations manipulate manipulating manipulations manipulativemost calculatedplot plottingplotting motionpolitics scheme shenanigans swindling tricking

Adjective(6 words)

manipulative influencepolitical meetingrascally shrewd shrewder snakier

Related word relations

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6 relation types

More general

8 entries

activity behaviorbehavior traitcharacterpersonality traitplan strategy tactics

More specific

13 entries

calculated habitconniving conspiring craftiness deceitfulness deviousdevious schemeguile manipulativemanipulative behaviorplottingsecret planunderhanded plot

Collocations

11 entries

scheming activityscheming behaviorscheming groupscheming mindscheming neighborscheming planscheming plotscheming political tacticscheming studentscheming tacticsscheming villain

Inflections

5 entries

more schemingmost schemingschemed schemes schemings

Derivations

5 entries

scheme schemed schemer schemes schemingly

similar

2 entries

artful hard

Sample sentences

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I know what you're scheming to do.

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When will you stop scheming?

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What wrong did you receive from me, that you are now scheming against me?

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I can see now how she was plotting and scheming and poisoning my wife’s mind against me, but I was such a blind beetle that I could not understand it at the time.

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