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  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.
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           That wickedness which schemed, and executed, his
           destruction.                             --G. Stuart.
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  Scheming \Schem"ing\, a.
     Given to forming schemes; artful; intriguing. --
     Schem"ing*ly, adv.
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  scheming
      adj 1: used of persons; "the most calculating and selfish men in
             the community" [syn: calculating, calculative,
             conniving, scheming, shrewd]
      2: 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]

  127 Moby Thesaurus words for "scheming":
     Byzantine, Machiavellian, Machiavellic, acute, arch, artful,
     artifice, astute, 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, 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