What is another word for scheming?
554 synonyms found
Pronunciation:
[ skˈiːmɪŋ], [ skˈiːmɪŋ], [ s_k_ˈiː_m_ɪ_ŋ]
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Similar words for scheming:
- artful (adjective)
- calculating (adjective)
- cunning (adjective)
- deceitful, sly (adjective)
- deceptive (adjective)
- designing (adjective)
- devious (adjective)
- diplomatic (adjective)
- dishonest (adjective)
- furtive (adjective)
- other relevant words (adjective)
- shifty (adjective)
- sly (adjective)
- subtle (adjective)
- tricky (adjective)
- underhanded (adjective)
- unscrupulous (adjective)
- untruthful (adjective)
- artifice (noun)
- calculative (noun)
- conniving (noun)
- cunning (noun)
- other relevant words (noun)
- wile (noun)
- calculating (verb)
- intending (verb)
- ordering (verb)
- planning (verb)
- venturing (verb)
- other synonyms
- prudence
- other relevant words (noun)
Synonyms for Scheming:
adj.
• artful (adjective) • calculating (adjective) • cunning (adjective)- deft,
- serpentine,
- sharp,
- cunning,
- witty,
- ingenious,
- skillful,
- clever,
- quick,
- shrewd,
- masterful,
- crafty,
- feline,
- wary,
- smooth,
- masterly,
- canny,
- snaky,
- astute,
- slippery.
- in sincere,
- shady,
- in sincerer,
- in-sincerer,
- in sincerest,
- faking out,
- most obliquitous,
- in-sincerest,
- playing politics,
- insincere,
- doubledealing,
- more obliquitous,
- in-sincere.
- more skulking,
- dis-guised,
- more sub rosa,
- most sub rosa,
- hush hush,
- more sub-rosa,
- more subrosa,
- most sub-rosa,
- more under-the-table,
- most skulking,
- most conspiratorial,
- more under the table,
- most under the table,
- more slinking,
- most slinking,
- masked,
- most under-the-table,
- hushhush,
- subrosa,
- most subrosa,
- under wraps,
- dis guised,
- under-cover,
- under cover,
- more conspiratorial.
- shifty,
- sneaking,
- subtle,
- unscrupulous,
- Witted,
- crazy like fox,
- sly,
- under-the-table,
- artful,
- faking one out,
- calculating,
- devious,
- casuistic,
- furtive,
- tricky,
- not straightforward,
- designing,
- opportunistic,
- prevaricative,
- obliquitous,
- complicit,
- streetwise,
- sub-rosa,
- prevaricatory,
- wily,
- lowdown,
- diplomatic,
- exploitative,
- Double dealing,
- playing games,
- unconscientious,
- low-down,
- crazy like a fox,
- guileful,
- conspiratorial.
- more prevaricatory,
- Unhonest,
- most equivocating,
- most shuffling,
- fly by night,
- most prevaricative,
- un-honest,
- most dodging,
- more unhonest,
- more shuffling,
- dis-honest,
- un honest,
- most prevaricatory,
- more equivocating,
- more dodging,
- dis honest,
- more prevaricative,
- most unhonest,
- un-principled,
- un principled,
- un-truthful.
- most dissembling,
- more dissembling,
- more plotting,
- impish,
- most plotting,
- most bluffing,
- dis honorable,
- more bluffing,
- dis-honorable.
- most casuistic,
- un conscientious,
- more casuistic,
- un ethical,
- more low-down,
- more low down,
- un scrupulous,
- most unconscientious,
- de-grading,
- most exploitative,
- more lowdown,
- un fairer,
- de graded,
- more unconscientious,
- dis graceful,
- more exploitative,
- dis-graceful,
- un worthy,
- un fair,
- un-worthiest,
- selfseeking,
- un fairest,
- un worthier,
- un-fairer,
- un-fairest,
- un worthiest,
- self seeking,
- un-scrupulous,
- un conscionable,
- de grading,
- un-fair,
- un-conscionable,
- un-ethical,
- un-conscientious,
- most lowdown,
- low down,
- de-graded,
- un-worthier.
n.
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•
- attitude.
- wile.
v.
• calculating (verb)- reckoning,
- Inferring,
- Supposing,
- judging,
- Triangulating,
- Presuming,
- appraising,
- Gauging,
- Multiplying,
- thinking,
- programming,
- quantifying,
- Tallying,
- quantizing,
- Totaling,
- studying,
- counting,
- Adding,
- Estimating,
- weighing,
- concluding,
- determining,
- dividing,
- Enumerating,
- Considering,
- Plotting,
- Systematizing,
- rating,
- Surmising,
- evaluating,
- scheduling,
- guessing,
- Summing,
- planning,
- figuring,
- Assessing,
- Approximating,
- measuring,
- scoring,
- accounting,
- rationalizing,
- Valuing,
- ranking,
- Deducing,
- computing.
- shaping,
- arranging,
- Collating,
- integrating,
- supporting,
- framing,
- composing,
- ordering,
- Placing,
- Preparing,
- setting,
- Organizing,
- balancing,
- Mediating,
- Methodizing,
- Marshalling,
- schematizing,
- sifting,
- settling,
- Establishing,
- Harmonizing,
- controlling,
- structuring,
- stabilizing,
- grading,
- Adjusting,
- unifying,
- Separating,
- pigeonholing,
- Forming,
- Arraying,
- casting,
- orchestrating,
- sorting,
- categorizing,
- unsnarling,
- typing,
- grouping,
- Righting,
- Classing,
- devising,
- subordinating,
- Classifying,
- fixing,
- normalizing,
- regulating,
- charting,
- Stratifying,
- Maintaining,
- screening.
Other synonyms:
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- means.
- connivance,
- scheme,
- plot,
- ability,
- catch,
- projection,
- mapping,
- strategy,
- sneaky,
- fly,
- put-up job,
- rigging,
- attract,
- come,
- dodging,
- Stratagemical,
- propositioning,
- traitorous,
- counselling,
- sophistical,
- convey,
- Perjured,
- preordering,
- modeling,
- depict,
- stacked deck,
- Foxlike,
- intrigue,
- tactical,
- move,
- projecting,
- secretive,
- evil,
- retrieve,
- communicate,
- Covin,
- describe,
- knowing,
- authority,
- engineering,
- ready,
- dodgy,
- counseling,
- Manipulating,
- treacherous,
- Underplot,
- hatching,
- Delineating,
- two-timing,
- fetch,
- smart,
- Fancying,
- smarmy,
- intriguing,
- plausible,
- resourceful,
- art,
- mendacious,
- tactic,
- false,
- reptilian,
- hard,
- no,
- perfidious,
- fascinating,
- graphing,
- deliver,
- cute,
- unfaithful,
- influence,
- finagling,
- acute,
- elicit,
- deception,
- conspiracy,
- skilful,
- bad,
- Chiseling,
- vulpine,
- deviousness,
- draw,
- jesuitical,
- supple,
- nefarious,
- device,
- unctuous,
- manipulation,
- complot,
- unlawful,
- contrivance,
- tricksy,
- fraudulent,
- stratagem,
- Subtile,
- gaming,
- wirepulling,
- deep-laid,
- command,
- modelling,
- coursing,
- game,
- Subreptitious,
- confederacy,
- surreptitious,
- collusive,
- bent,
- evasive,
- satanic,
- Forsworn,
- byzantine,
- trap,
- shrewdness,
- delineate,
- develop,
- commit,
- drafting,
- bring,
- trick,
- Imagining,
- Machinating,
- counterfeit,
- falsehearted,
- Tricking,
- Caballing,
- deep,
- Outlining,
- Machining,
- believable,
- setup,
- inventive,
- Escaping,
- forecasting,
- stealthy,
- collusion,
- janus-faced,
- misleading,
- Manoeuvring,
- practice,
- politic,
- protrusion,
- care,
- little game,
- untrustworthy,
- disingenuous,
- rule,
- cagey,
- machiavellian,
- Trickish,
- devilish,
- counterplot,
- wiling,
- Uncandid,
- maneuverings,
- trickery,
- Abstracting,
- sophistic,
- sway,
- credible,
- dirty trick,
- Wire-pulling,
- crooked,
- strategic,
- pawky,
- insidious,
- Connivent,
- Purposing,
- dissembling,
- offering,
- Deceiving,
- machinations,
- design,
- frame-up,
- Unsincere,
- control,
- Covinous,
- get,
- cagy,
- manoeuvre,
- ruse,
- capture,
- contribute,
- conduct,
- intrigues,
- cabal,
- dishonest,
- finesse,
- ENG,
- deceitful,
- gambit,
- Draughting,
- ploy,
- premeditation,
- cautious,
- Conspiring,
- slimy,
- diagraming,
- indirect,
- unfrank,
- bridle,
- carry,
- oily,
- diabolical,
- diagramming,
- wise,
- hypocritical,
- complicity,
- mephistophelian,
- underhanded,
- commence,
- machination,
- beguiling,
- arch,
- prearrangement.
How to use "Scheming" in context?
Scheming is a activity that is done in order to achieve an objective, usually something that the schemer desires. This activity usually involves deception, plotting, and sometimes even violence. It can be practiced by individuals or groups and can take many different forms.
Scheming can take many different forms, from simple games of catch to political machinations. It can be as simple as trying to get someone to do something for you, or as complicated as planning a heist. It can be used to achieve any objective, be it financial, political, or personal.
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Noun, plural
plans, blueprints, schematics.
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Adjective
conspiratorial, insidious.
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