释义 |
: given to forming schemes especially : devious as in cunning clever at attaining one's ends by indirect and often deceptive means the novel is about an elderly man and his scheming son who is impatient to inherit the family fortune -
cunning -
cute -
designing -
devious -
subtle -
wily -
fraudulent -
plotting -
slick -
dishonest -
treacherous -
deceptive -
sly -
crafty -
crooked -
shrewd -
calculating -
artful -
beguiling -
cagey -
guileful -
deceitful -
tricky -
foxy -
shady -
cagy -
dodgy -
unscrupulous -
covert -
slippery -
sneaky -
underhanded -
shifty -
undercover -
insinuating -
astute -
knavish -
clandestine -
secret -
sharp -
underhand -
insincere -
facile -
Machiavellian -
serpentine -
hypocritical -
oblique -
glib -
double-dealing -
circular -
surreptitious -
concealed -
furtive -
roundabout -
two-faced -
circuitous -
stealthy -
mealy -
backhanded -
mealymouthed -
smooth-tongued -
hugger-mugger -
left-handed -
innocent -
obvious -
guileless -
real -
artless -
public -
plain -
open -
outspoken -
direct -
simple -
ingenuous -
sincere -
honest -
patent -
unsophisticated -
simpleminded -
forthright -
frank -
straightforward -
unconcealed -
childlike -
unaffected -
natural -
undesigning -
impressionable -
candid -
aboveboard -
unpretentious -
unpretending -
trusting -
unworldly -
unvarnished -
unforced -
plainspoken -
unstudied -
trustful See More as in plotting -
plotting -
stealth -
secrecy -
deception -
cunning -
design -
dirty tricks -
duplicity -
dirty pool -
deceit -
treachery -
humbuggery -
deviousness -
imposture -
cunning -
double-dealing -
dissimulation -
fakery -
guile -
hypocrisy -
sneakiness -
quackery -
trickery -
underhandedness -
subterfuge -
insincerity -
shrewdness -
dishonesty -
deceptiveness -
slyness -
shiftiness -
crookedness -
dupery -
craftiness -
wiliness -
skulduggery -
skullduggery -
crookery -
deceitfulness -
wile -
gamesmanship -
chicanery -
artfulness -
caginess -
slipperiness -
slickness -
shadiness -
legerdemain -
oiliness -
jugglery -
guilefulness -
cageyness -
hanky-panky -
chicane -
jiggery-pokery -
artifice -
foxiness -
sharpness -
ingenuousness -
sincerity -
artlessness -
guilelessness -
openness -
forthrightness -
candor -
directness -
plainness -
candidness -
plainspokenness See More present participle of scheme as in conniving to engage in a secret plan to accomplish evil or unlawful ends the town inspector had schemed to overlook the contractor's code violations in exchange for a substantial bribe -
plotting -
conniving -
planning -
colluding -
conspiring -
contriving -
machinating -
intriguing -
devising -
concocting -
engineering -
compassing -
hatching -
manipulating -
maneuvering -
designing -
jockeying -
brewing -
putting up -
mapping -
counterplotting -
shaping -
cooking (up) -
framing -
laying out |