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adjectivegiven to making plans, especially sly and underhand ones; crafty. Origin of schemingFirst recorded in 1830–40; scheme + -ing2 SYNONYMS FOR schemingartful, calculating, cunning. SEE SYNONYMS FOR scheming ON THESAURUS.COM OTHER WORDS FROM schemingschem·ing·ly, adverbun·schem·ing, adjectiveWords nearby schemingschematic, schematism, schematize, scheme, schemie, scheming, Schenectady, Schengen Convention, Schepisi, Scherbo, Schererville Dictionary.com UnabridgedBased on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020 Example sentences from the Web for schemingEven the most sketch-ball, scheming car mechanic knows how much those brake pads cost. ‘Code Black’: An M.D. on How to Fix Our Emergency Room Crisis|Ryan McGarry|June 20, 2014|DAILY BEAST Mordred is a slave to his lust for the Queen, finding no outlet for his thwarted energies except in scheming action. Tolkien’s Unfinished Epic: ‘The Fall of Arthur’|John Garth|May 23, 2013|DAILY BEAST Mantel, unfortunately, repeats the “scheming Anne” portrayal in her own novels. Why Does Anne Boleyn Obsess Us?|Lauren Elkin|April 25, 2013|DAILY BEAST The goal of my book is to empower people to see through this scheming. What’s in Your Food? Michael Moss Reveals the Food Industry’s Secrets|Michael Moss|March 24, 2013|DAILY BEAST
We still have enemies who spend every waking hour scheming of ways to blow up that mall of imagined peacetime. Those Who Lost Loved Ones on 9/11 Cannot Forget and Neither Should America|Michael Daly|September 10, 2012|DAILY BEAST To that end he spends a large part of his time in scheming how to get rid of all the other tints. This Giddy Globe|Oliver Herford The scheming ambition of Sir Frederick Langley engaged him in the unfortunate insurrection of 1715. The Black Dwarf|Sir Walter Scott As if she had never suspected that such was the result of her scheming, Mrs Oldcastle's demeanour changed utterly. Annals of a Quiet Neighbourhood|George MacDonald We are keeping our secret as well as we can, hoping for relief from Montgomery, and scheming to receive assurance of it. The Story of Old Fort Loudon|Charles Egbert Craddock I can picture to myself Waldstein pacing along that alley of clipped trees, now overgrown, scheming and planning. From a Terrace in Prague|Lieut.-Col. B. Granville Baker
British Dictionary definitions for scheming
adjectivegiven to making plots; cunning Derived forms of schemingschemingly, adverbCollins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012 Words related to schemingduplicitous, wily, calculating, crafty, conniving, designing, artful, cunning, foxy, slippery, tricky, underhand |