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scheming
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scheming

adjective

Definition of SCHEMING

: given to forming schemes; especially : devious
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Examples of SCHEMING

  1. <the novel is about an elderly man and his scheming son who is impatient to inherit the family fortune>

First Known Use of SCHEMING

1741

Related to SCHEMING

Synonyms
beguiling, cagey (also cagy), crafty, cunning, cute, designing, devious, dodgy [chiefly British], foxy, guileful, artful, shrewd, slick, sly, subtle, tricky, wily
Antonyms
artless, guileless, ingenuous, innocent, undesigning

Rhymes with SCHEMING

screaming, seeming, streaming

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