Synonyms of scheming

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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

• 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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• 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

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

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scheming

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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