scheming

adj.deceitful, sly

Synonyms for scheming

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Antonyms for scheming

complicit

adjective. associated with unethical activity

Word Origin & History

1550s, "figure of speech," from Medieval Latin schema "shape, figure, form, appearance; figure of speech; posture in dancing," from Greek skhema (genitive skhematos) "figure, appearance, the nature of a thing," related to skhein "to get," and ekhein "to have," from PIE root *segh- "to hold, to hold in one's power, to have" (cf. Sanskrit sahate "he masters, overcomes," sahah "power, victory;" Avestan hazah "power, victory;" Greek ekhein "to have, hold;" Gothic sigis, Old High German sigu, Old Norse sigr, Old English sige "victory").

The sense "program of action" first is attested 1640s. Unfavorable overtones (selfish, devious) began to creep in early 18c. Meaning "complex unity of coordinated component elements" is from 1736. Color scheme is attested from 1884.

Example Sentences for scheming

He's been scheming, ever since I told him you were coming, to get out of driving in to meet you.

Why, you've got all Nature on your side, plotting and scheming for you.

The Carlists were scheming, and the Cortes was driven to an immediate decision.

He had been wondering and scheming how to compel the Spokesmen of the Gens to obey his will.

You know he has been scheming all along to take her from you.

We are scheming against you and your country, and you know it, and we shall win.

You're as bad as the rest of them, all scheming and plotting against me, betraying me.

Will you take me, also, out of this hell of plotting and scheming, and this chaos of exile and death?

She's been angling and scheming for it for years, but she will find who she has to deal with.

Too unpractical, too visionary, with all his brains and scheming.

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