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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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... aid of a lantern and a slip of paper containing the directions, sorted over the legal ballots, threw some out, and put in new ones. When another sun arose the dastardly outrage upon the American elective franchise had been completed, and Addicks was busily scheming to carry out the remainder of the plot. On the declaration which he or one of his associates would make, that there had been fraud in Sussex County, the Government at Washington must send on an investigating committee to ...

— Frenzied Finance - Vol. 1: The Crime of Amalgamated • Thomas W. Lawson

... and that when any such single act can be proven against an unmarried man, by an unmarried woman, the latter be at once invested with all the legal privileges of a wife. By bestowing this power on women very few men would risk the dangers of the society of a dissolute and scheming woman who might exercise the right to force him to a marriage and ruin his reputation and life. The strongest objection of this would be that it would increase the temptation to destroy the purity of married women, for they could be approached without danger ...

— Searchlights on Health - The Science of Eugenics • B. G. Jefferis and J. L. Nichols

... stenography, since that would leave her evenings free, and which would tide her over these first weeks of difficult readjustment. To find and afford for this amazing liability of hers the kind of temporary asylum that would set her free for the scheming out ...

— Star-Dust • Fannie Hurst

... hard!" his sister said, "He is entirely left alone now. Is sorrow easier to bear when it is our own doing? I heard that he was ill. That is probably the reason why he has come home. I know all this from Apollonie, who is in communication with Mr. Trius. She keeps on scheming to find a way to set the rooms in order for her young master, as she still calls him. She knows how his mother would wish everything to be for her son. I understand quite well that she worries night and day about the state things are in at the castle. Her former master ...

— Maezli - A Story of the Swiss Valleys • Johanna Spyri

... shown to the scheming Harwood over the afternoon vermouth, he suspended a long discourse on the contemptible fate of being born an Anglo-Saxon, and it came over him with a blessed shock that Emma had the missing St. Michael. ...

— The Collectors • Frank Jewett Mather

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