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schemer

noun as in conniver

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Efforts around the country to prosecute even those low-level schemers, cheaters and 2020 election miscreants have produced mixed results.

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But Rachel is no shrinking violet, holding her own against lowlifes and schemers while navigating the movie’s unexpected turns, shocking violence and wrenching tension.

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“The old schemer was hiding in the woods. I flushed him out of the bushes like a hound flushes out a fox. A merry hunt it was, wouldn’t you say, Eddie, old boy?”

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“One schemer has been outschemed by another, it appears. Sounds like justice to me. But let us not forget: This young rogue needs to account for himself, too.”

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It seems my father and my pooch, two savvy schemers, had hatched a plan back in Charlotte.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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