Thesaurus results for SCHEMER

schemer

noun

Definition of schemer

as in conspirator

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Recent Examples of schemer Editor’s pick More picks How a bootlegging schemer launched the tiki movement from his tiny Hollywood bar. — Deputy Managing Editor, Los Angeles Times, 1 Sep. 2026 Matt Damon plays Odysseus as a gruff, practical tactician, rather than an energetically inventive and morally dubious schemer. — Caroline Mimbs Nyce, New Yorker, 17 July 2026 The Intrigue, Silvia Moreno-Garcia (July 14) Advertisement For a handsome schemer in Mexico during the 1940s, love and longing may be the best way to an income. — Hamilton Cain, Time, 7 July 2026 The film is set in a declining industrial city in Northeast China and traces a young man’s search for his father, a small-time schemer who chased quick riches during the freewheeling capitalist surge of the late 1990s and early 2000s in Southern China. — Marcus Lim, Variety, 18 June 2026 Readers may learn about the Florida aquifer, cowhunters, deadhead logging, old-school conservationists such as Marjory Stoneman Douglas and even Charles Ponzi, the famed schemer. — Dewayne Bevil, The Orlando Sentinel, 29 Apr. 2026 Mike McDaniel is the exact schemer and play caller who can maximize this skill set, though. — Daniel Popper, New York Times, 26 Apr. 2026 Thomas Jefferson, the great hero of the Declaration of Independence, is shown as hypocritical, cowardly, manipulative, a schemer of every kind. — David Frum, The Atlantic, 25 Mar. 2026 The standout is Jack Davenport, playing Soames’ father James as a shameless schemer, bent on frustrating his brother’s side of the family by any means necessary. — Sarah Shachat, IndieWire, 23 Mar. 2026

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The performances are first-rate across the board, with Bell and Jarvis outstanding as the lead conspirators.

— Frank Scheck, HollywoodReporter, 9 Sep. 2026
The film, notable for seeing the robbers escape in Mini Coopers before the inevitable double-crossing took place between the co-conspirators, did well at the box office, grossing $176 million worldwide.

— Mike Fleming Jr, Deadline, 9 Sep. 2026

Definition of conspirator

Noun

Then in the 1980s, vinyl plotters came on the market, and people started using those machines to cut out letters for signs.

— Clio Chang, Curbed, 22 June 2026
The plotters behind the coup had rolled tanks down the main streets, parking them at strategic locations all over the city.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 22 June 2026

Definition of plotter

Noun

The team was criticized in Iran and branded as traitors in the media there for remaining silent when the Iranian national anthem was played ahead of their opening loss against South Korea on March 2.

— ABC News, ABC News, 7 Sep. 2026
However, their time together ended when Tamburello, a faithful, turned on Parks, a traitor, and voted to banish her in episode 10.

— Kathleen Perricone, Entertainment Weekly, 4 Sep. 2026

Definition of traitor

Noun

Dillman and his coconspirator used the funds to pay themselves and to make risky and speculative investments in other cryptocurrency ventures, authorities said, citing other evidence presented at the trial.

— Jason Green, Mercury News, 25 Aug. 2026
Others were lured by his girlfriend and coconspirator, Ghislaine Maxwell, or by other young girls like themselves, who were paid by Epstein to recruit them.

— Abby Ellin, Vanity Fair, 27 July 2026

Definition of coconspirator

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