scheming
Example Sentences
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She played the scheming, seductive Iris in the 1970 blaxploitation comedy classic “Cotton Comes to Harlem.”
From Los Angeles Times
And while Hamlet may dither in seeking revenge for his father’s murder, we don’t hope that the scheming Claudius gets away with it.
Model and system behaviors included deception, blackmail and scheming, especially when asked to shut itself down.
“So now it looks like I had been kind of scheming and forcing this to happen,” Adkins said.
Her 2017 debut, “Dark Blue Girl,” concerned a young girl scheming to keep her separated parents from getting back together.
From Los Angeles Times
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