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scheming

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Main Entry: scheming
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: deceitful, sly

Synonyms:

artful, calculating, conniving, crafty, cunning, designing, duplicitous, foxy, slippery, tricky, underhand, wily

Antonyms:

aboveboard, honest, open
Main Entry: angle for
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: attempt to get

Synonyms:

aim for, be after, cast about for, connive, conspire, contrive, fish for, hint, hunt, invite, look for, maneuver, plan, plot, scheme, seek, solicit, strive, try for
Main Entry: arrange
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: make plans, often involving agreement

Synonyms:

adapt, adjust, agree to, blueprint, chart, come to terms, compromise, concert, construct, contrive, decide, design, determine, devise, direct, draft, establish, frame*, get act together, get ready, hammer out a deal, harmonize, iron out, lay out, line up, make a connection, make ready, manage, map out, negotiate, organize, prepare, project, promote, provide, pull a wire, pull things together, quarterback, resolve, schedule, scheme, set stage, settle, shape up, tailor, work out, work out a deal

Antonyms:

disorganize, not plan
Main Entry: artful
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: skillful; cunning

Synonyms:

adept, adroit, clever, crafty, designing, dexterous, foxy*, ingenious, masterly, politic, proficient, resourceful, scheming, sharp, shrewd, slick*, sly, smart, smooth*, tricky, wily

Antonyms:

artless, ingenuous, naive, unskillful
Main Entry: artifice
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: cunning; deception

Synonyms:

artfulness, chicanery, craftiness, dishonesty, duplicity, guile, scheming, slyness, trickery, wiliness

Antonyms:

candor, frankness, honesty, honor, ingenuousness, innocence, openness, reality, sincerity, truthfulness
Main Entry: brew
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: plan, devise

Synonyms:

breed, compound, concoct, contrive, develop, excite, foment, form, gather, hatch, impend, loom, mull, plot, project, scheme, start, stir up, weave
Main Entry: calculating
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: scheming to manipulate

Synonyms:

Machiavellian, artful, canny, careful, cautious, chary, circumspect, considerate, contriving, crafty, cunning, designing, devious, discreet, gingerly, guarded, guileful, intelligent, manipulative, politic, premeditating, safe, scheming, sharp, shrewd, sly, wary, wily

Antonyms:

artless, naive, unassuming, uncalculating
Main Entry: concoct
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: formulate, think up

Synonyms:

ad lib, batch, brew*, compound, contrive, cook up, create, design, devise, discover, dream up, envisage, envision, fabricate, frame*, hatch, invent, make up, mature, originate, plan, plot, prefab, prepare, project, scheme, slap together, throw together, vamp
Main Entry: contrive
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: invent, design

Synonyms:

come up with, concoct, construct, cook up, create, devise, dream up, engineer, fabricate, fashion, forge, form, formulate, frame*, handle, hatch, improvise, make, make up*, manipulate, manufacture, move, plan, plot, project, rig, scheme, throw together, trump up, vamp, wangle, whip up

Antonyms:

disorganize
Main Entry: contrive
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: bring about, succeed with difficulty

Synonyms:

achieve, angle, arrange, carry out, cogitate, collude, compass, concoct, connive, develop, devise, effect, elaborate, engineer, execute, finagle, hatch, hit upon, intrigue, jockey, machinate, manage, maneuver, manipulate, mastermind, negotiate, pass, plan, play games, plot, project, scheme, shift, swing, work out, wrangle

Antonyms:

demolish, destroy, ruin, stop, waste, wreck
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