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Synonyms & Antonyms of scheming
(Entry 1 of 3)
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 for scheming
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- crooked,
- deceitful,
- deceptive,
- dishonest,
- fraudulent,
- insinuating,
- knavish,
- Machiavellian,
- oblique,
- serpentine,
- shady,
- shifty,
- slippery,
- sneaky,
- treacherous,
- underhand,
- underhanded,
- unscrupulous
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scheming
nounSynonyms & Antonyms of scheming (Entry 2 of 3)
as in plotting, secrecy
Synonyms & Near Synonyms for scheming
- crookedness,
- crookery,
- cunning,
- deceit,
- deceitfulness,
- deception,
- deceptiveness,
- dishonesty,
- dissimulation,
- double-dealing,
- dupery,
- duplicity,
- guile,
- guilefulness,
- hypocrisy,
- insincerity
Antonyms & Near Antonyms for scheming
scheming
verbpresent participle of scheme
Synonyms of scheming (Entry 3 of 3)
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
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The first known use of scheming was in 1741
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