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Новый большой англо-русский словарь. 2001.
scheming — Ⅰ. scheming UK US /ˈskiːmɪŋ/ adjective DISAPPROVING ► used to describe someone who makes clever secret plans intended to deceive others: »a scheming businessman Ⅱ. scheming UK US /ˈskiːmɪŋ/ noun [U] DISAPPROVING ► … Financial and business terms
Scheming — Schem ing, a. Given to forming schemes; artful; intriguing. {Schem ing*ly}, adv. [1913 Webster] … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
scheming — index artful, collusion, collusive, deceptive, devious, diplomatic, dishonest, disingenuous, evasive … Law dictionary
scheming — [adj] deceitful, sly artful, calculating, conniving, crafty, cunning, designing, duplicitous, foxy, slippery, tricky, underhand, wily; concept 542 Ant. aboveboard, honest, open … New thesaurus
scheming — [skē′miŋ] adj. given to forming schemes or plots; crafty, tricky, deceitful, etc. schemingly adv … English World dictionary
Scheming — 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
scheming — adjective he finally saw his scheming wife for what she really was Syn: cunning, crafty, calculating, devious, designing, conniving, wily, sly, tricky, artful, guileful, slippery, slick, manipulative, Machiavellian, unscrupulous, disingenuous;… … Thesaurus of popular words
Scheming Schemers — Infobox Film name = Scheming Schemers caption = director = Jules White writer = Felix Adler starring = Moe Howard Larry Fine Shemp Howard Joe Palma Emil Sitka Kenneth MacDonald Christine McIntyre Symona Boniface Dudley Dickerson cinematography =… … Wikipedia
scheming — adjective Date: 1741 given to forming schemes; especially devious … New Collegiate Dictionary
scheming — schemingly, adv. /skee ming/, adj. given to making plans, esp. sly and underhand ones; crafty. [1830 40; SCHEME + ING2] Syn. artful, calculating, cunning. * * * … Universalium
scheming — Synonyms and related words: Byzantine, Machiavellian, Machiavellic, acute, arch, artful, artifice, astute, cabal, cagey, calculating, canny, chiseling, clever, collusion, collusive, complicity, complot, confederacy, connivance, connivent,… … Moby Thesaurus
