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designingadjective clever at attaining one's ends by indirect and often deceptive meansa fraudulent scheme contrived by a group of greedy and designing people artful, beguiling, cagey(also cagy), crafty, cunning, cute, devious, dodgy(chiefly British), foxy, guileful, scheming, 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 have in mind as a purpose or goalearly on she had designed to a top position in a major insurance company aiming, allowing(chiefly Southern & Midland), aspiring, calculating, contemplating, going(chiefly Southern & Midland), intending, looking, meaning, meditating, planning, proposing, purporting, purposing dreaming, hoping, wishingconsidering, debating, mulling (over), ponderingattempting, endeavoring, striving, struggling, tryingplotting, schemingaccomplishing, achieving, effecting, executing, performing figuring on to work out the details of (something) in advancethe foreman designed a better layout for the factory floor to improve efficiency arranging, blueprinting, budgeting, calculating, charting, choreographing, framing, laying out, mapping (out), organizing, planning, preparing, projecting, scheming (out), shaping, strategizing (about) conspiring, contriving, devising, intriguing, machinating, plotting, putting upconcerting, getting updrafting, outlining, sketchingaiming, figuring, having on, intending, meaningcontemplating, meditating, premeditating in 1641 |