Crossword clues for scheming
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Scheming \Schem"ing\, a. Given to forming schemes; artful; intriguing. -- Schem"ing*ly, adv.
Scheme \Scheme\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Schemed; p. pr. & vb. n. Scheming.] To make a scheme of; to plan; to design; to project; to plot.
That wickedness which schemed, and executed, his
destruction.
--G. Stuart.
Wiktionary
(context pejorative English) Tending to scheme#Ver
vb. (present participle of scheme English)
WordNet
adj. used of persons; "the most calculating and selfish men in the community" [syn: calculating, calculative, conniving, shrewd]
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" [syn: designing]
Usage examples of "scheming".
The barghest army offered protection and companionship, and Ulgulu, always scheming for new and more devious kills, had provided Tephanis with unending important missions.
There had been a Coplin, Benly, who thought everybody was scheming against him.
Whip Russel had brought his eleven bombers into Garbutt Field for major modification work, and first impressions were important on a field where priorities came from scheming and where regulations were archaic memories.
Jessica felt the cold sheath of the crysknife beneath her bodice, thought of the long chain of Bene Gesserit scheming that had forged another link here.
But try to find me a Jansenist, some friend of Father Pirard, immune to plots and scheming.
And now, when mother and daughter had been coaxed to Mildenhurst, off went John into Leicestershire, so that all the scheming so painstakingly undertaken on his behalf seemed likely to be wasted.
As lusts together with slynesses make the internal of thought with evil persons, and the enjoyments of the lusts together with scheming make the external of thought in them, and the two are joined into one, it follows that the internal cannot be purified from the lusts as long as the evils in the external man are not removed.
Anyone can see that lusts and their enjoyments make one, that slynesses and scheming also do, and that the four are one series and as it were make a single bundle.
Bulls in half-playful dominance contests, but animals as savage as charging rhinos, even hordes of scheming, clever Fireheads.
He felt that behind that smooth brow, which looked waxlike now, the mind was still alert, scheming, plotting, striving for freedom, for conquest and for power, and rendered even doubly keen and virile by the ardour of supreme self-sacrifice.
These Chartists consist of the most ignorant people in the land - the rabble, in fact, headed by a few scheming malcontents: professional agitators who are not above picking the pockets of the poor.
With a manner frank, open, and winning, he was yet able to match the craftiest of opponents at their own weapons of scheming and duplicity.
Now his deftest scheming served to keep him afloat but no more than that and he was contemplating the necessity to change his outlook and his goals, to completely revamp the way he worked.
Why had he kept accurate data regarding donors and egg recipients, data that had led Lisa to discover what he and Nestle were scheming?
His business was not with these stiff-jointed, slow-witted graziers, but with the supple, dangerous, far-seeing men who sit scheming by the gas-light in the great cities, after all the lamps and candles are out from the Merrimac to the Housatonic.