scheming adj

1 used of persons; "the most calculating and selfish men in the community" [syn: calculating, calculative, conniving, shrewd]

2 concealing crafty designs for advancing your own interest; "a selfish and designing nation obsessed with the dark schemes of European intrigue"- W.Churchill; "a scheming wife"; "a scheming gold digger" [syn: designing]

English

Verb

scheming

Byzantine, Machiavellian, Machiavellic, acute, arch, artful, artifice, astute, cabal, cagey, calculating, canny, chiseling, clever, collusion, collusive, complicity, complot, confederacy, connivance, connivent, conniving, conspiracy, conspiring, contrivance, contriving, counterplot, covin, covinous, crafty, cunning, cute, deceitful, deep, deep-laid, deep-laid plot, designing, devious, diplomatic, disingenuous, duplicitous, engineering, false, falsehearted, feline, finagling, finesse, forsworn, foxy, frame-up, fraudulent, furtive, game, guileful, indirect, ingenious, insidious, insincere, intrigue, intriguing, inventive, knowing, little game, machination, maneuvering, manipulation, nefarious, packed deal, packed jury, pawky, perjured, planning, plot, plotting, politic, prearrangement, preconcertedness, premeditation, preordering, put-up job, ready, resourceful, rigged jury, rigging, scheme, schemery, serpentine, setup, sharp, shifty, shrewd, slick, slippery, sly, smooth, snaky, sneaky, sophistical, stacked deck, stealthy, stratagem, stratagemical, strategic, subtile, subtle, supple, surreptitious, tactical, treacherous, trick, trickish, tricksy, tricky, two-faced, uncandid, underhand, underhanded, underplot, unfrank, unsincere, untruthful, up to, vulpine, wary, web of intrigue, wily, wire-pulling