scheming

scheming — Ⅰ. scheming UK US /ˈskiːmɪŋ/ adjective DISAPPROVING ► used to describe someone who makes clever secret plans intended to deceive others: »a scheming businessman Ⅱ. scheming UK US /ˈskiːmɪŋ/ noun [U] DISAPPROVING ► …   Financial and business terms

Scheming — Schem ing, a. Given to forming schemes; artful; intriguing. {Schem ing*ly}, adv. [1913 Webster] …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

scheming — index artful, collusion, collusive, deceptive, devious, diplomatic, dishonest, disingenuous, evasive …   Law dictionary

scheming — [adj] deceitful, sly artful, calculating, conniving, crafty, cunning, designing, duplicitous, foxy, slippery, tricky, underhand, wily; concept 542 Ant. aboveboard, honest, open …   New thesaurus

scheming — [skē′miŋ] adj. given to forming schemes or plots; crafty, tricky, deceitful, etc. schemingly adv …   English World dictionary

Scheming — 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] …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

scheming — adjective he finally saw his scheming wife for what she really was Syn: cunning, crafty, calculating, devious, designing, conniving, wily, sly, tricky, artful, guileful, slippery, slick, manipulative, Machiavellian, unscrupulous, disingenuous;… …   Thesaurus of popular words

scheming — adjective Date: 1741 given to forming schemes; especially devious …   New Collegiate Dictionary

scheming — schemingly, adv. /skee ming/, adj. given to making plans, esp. sly and underhand ones; crafty. [1830 40; SCHEME + ING2] Syn. artful, calculating, cunning. * * * …   Universalium

scheming — Synonyms and related words: Byzantine, Machiavellian, Machiavellic, acute, arch, artful, artifice, astute, cabal, cagey, calculating, canny, chiseling, clever, collusion, collusive, complicity, complot, confederacy, connivance, connivent,… …   Moby Thesaurus

scheming — I (Roget s IV) modif. Syn. tricky, cunning, crafty; see sly 1 . II (Roget s 3 Superthesaurus) a. crafty, underhanded, sneaky, artful, tricky, conniving, calculating, sly, foxy, slippery. ANT.: artless, innocent III (Roget s Thesaurus II)… …   English dictionary for students