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Scheming   /skˈimɪŋ/   Listen
Scheming

adjective
1.
Used of persons.  Synonyms: calculating, calculative, conniving, shrewd.
2.
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)
1.
Form intrigues (for) in an underhand manner.  Synonyms: connive, intrigue.
2.
Devise a system or form a scheme for.



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"Scheming" Quotes from Famous Books



... Pope the Head of the Church when no one knew which was the true Pope? How could men respect the Popes when some of the Popes were men of bad moral character? Pope Urban VI. was a ferocious brute, who had five of his enemies secretly murdered; Pope Clement VII., his clever rival, was a scheming politician; and Pope John XXIII. was a man whose character will scarcely bear describing in print. Of all the scandals in the Catholic Church, this disgraceful quarrel between rival Popes did most to upset the minds of good men and to prepare the way for the Reformation. It aroused the scorn ...
— History of the Moravian Church • J. E. Hutton
... acknowledgments are due to the distinguished authors herein quoted for much valuable information, throwing light on the complications that have been accumulating so long, and that owe their origin to political blundering and cosmopolitan scheming rather than to the racial antagonism between ...
— South Africa and the Transvaal War, Vol. 1 (of 6) - From the Foundation of Cape Colony to the Boer Ultimatum - of 9th Oct. 1899 • Louis Creswicke
... Andy Barkswell—know what yer scheming brain hez concocted. Not content wi' puttin' poor Vict'ry Vane out o' the world, you hev planned ter kill my sister, yer true and lawful wife. ...
— Five Thousand Dollars Reward • Frank Pinkerton
... The scheming beauty's heart thrilled with a sense of triumph. She thought that she had at last made a conquest that might be better worth the making than any of those past conquests, which had all ended ...
— Run to Earth - A Novel • M. E. Braddon
... were the critical moments of life, or how much of emotion and difficulty and strenuous decision were to be crowded into the next few days. A whirlpool of events was drawing him to its raging centre. The death and the burial of Colendorp, Sagan's resentment and his ruthless scheming were all eddies of circumstance circling inward and carrying him with ...
— A Modern Mercenary • Kate Prichard and Hesketh Vernon Hesketh-Prichard


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