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单词 scheming
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scheming

adjective

schem·​ing ˈskē-miŋ How to pronounce scheming (audio)
: given to forming schemes
especially : devious

Synonyms

  • artful
  • beguiling
  • cagey
  • cagy
  • crafty
  • cunning
  • cute
  • designing
  • devious
  • dodgy [chiefly British]
  • foxy
  • guileful
  • shrewd
  • slick
  • sly
  • subtle
  • tricky
  • wily
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Example Sentences

the novel is about an elderly man and his scheming son who is impatient to inherit the family fortune
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Word History

First Known Use

1741, in the meaning defined above

scheming 1 of 3

adjective

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

Synonyms & Similar Words

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  • 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

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

  • 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
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scheming

2 of 3

noun

as in plotting

Synonyms & Similar Words

  • 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

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

  • ingenuousness
  • sincerity
  • artlessness
  • guilelessness
  • openness
  • forthrightness
  • candor
  • directness
  • plainness
  • candidness
  • plainspokenness
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scheming

3 of 3

verb

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

Synonyms & Similar Words

  • 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
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