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schemingadjective clever at attaining one's ends by indirect and often deceptive meansthe novel is about an elderly man and his scheming son who is impatient to inherit the family fortune artful, beguiling, cagey(also cagy), crafty, cunning, cute, designing, devious, dodgy(chiefly British), foxy, guileful, shrewd, slick, sly, subtle, tricky, wily astute, facile, glib, sharpcrooked, deceitful, deceptive, dishonest, fraudulent, insinuating, knavish, Machiavellian, oblique, serpentine, shady, shifty, slippery, sneaky, treacherous, underhand, underhanded, unscrupulousbackhanded, double-dealing, hypocritical, insincere, left-handed, mealy, mealymouthed, smooth-tongued, two-facedcircuitous, circular, roundaboutclandestine, concealed, covert, furtive, hugger-mugger, secret, stealthy, surreptitious, undercovercalculating, plotting artless, guileless, ingenuous, innocent, undesigning obvious, open, patent, plain, public, unconcealedaboveboard, candid, direct, forthright, frank, honest, natural, outspoken, plainspoken, real, simple, sincere, straightforward, unaffected, unpretending, unpretentious, unvarnishedchildlike, impressionable, simpleminded, unsophisticated, unworldlyunforced, unstudiedtrustful, trusting to engage in a secret plan to accomplish evil or unlawful endsthe town inspector had schemed to overlook the contractor's code violations in exchange for a substantial bribe colluding, compassing, conniving, conspiring, contriving, intriguing, machinating, plotting, putting up counterplottingbrewing, concocting, cooking (up), devising, hatchingengineering, jockeying, maneuvering, manipulatingdesigning, framing, laying out, mapping, planning, shaping in 1741 |