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scheming

Pronunciation:  'skeeming

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 Definition: 
  1. [adj]  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"
  2. [adj]  used of persons; "the most calculating and selfish men in the community"
 
 Synonyms: artful, calculating, calculative, conniving, designing, hard, shrewd
 

 

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary
 
 Definition: 
\Schem"ing\, a.
Given to forming schemes; artful; intriguing. --
{Schem"ing*ly}, adv.

 

 

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