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Wordnet 3.0

ADJECTIVE (2)

1. used of persons;
- Example: "the most calculating and selfish men in the community"
[syn: calculating, calculative, conniving, scheming, shrewd]

2. concealing crafty designs for advancing your own interest;
- Example: "a selfish and designing nation obsessed with the dark schemes of European intrigue"- W.Churchill
- Example: "a scheming wife"
- Example: "a scheming gold digger"
[syn: designing, scheming]


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

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. [1913 Webster] That wickedness which schemed, and executed, his destruction. --G. Stuart. [1913 Webster]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Scheming \Schem"ing\, a. Given to forming schemes; artful; intriguing. -- Schem"ing*ly, adv. [1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

scheming adj 1: used of persons; "the most calculating and selfish men in the community" [syn: calculating, calculative, conniving, scheming, shrewd] 2: 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, scheming]