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Definition/Meaning

(adjective)

given or tending to forming schemes, or underhand plots;

e.g. He is a manipulative, scheming little man.

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Similar Words

Artful

Artifice

Assuming

Beguiling

Cagey

Chicane

Chicanery

Crafty

Crookery

Cunning

Cute

Deceit

Deception

Design

Designing

Devious

Dishonesty

Dodgy

Double-dealing

Dupery

Duplicity

Framing

Guile

Hanky-panky

Hypocrisy

Imposture

Intriguing

Jugglery

Legerdemain

Mapping

Secrecy

Skulduggery

Slick

Sly

Slyly

Stealth

Subterfuge

Subtle

Trickery

Tricky

Wile

Wily

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Opposite Words

Aboveboard

Artless

Candid

Candor

Direct

Directness

Forthright

Frank

Genuine

Guileless

Honest

Impressionable

Incautious

Mindless

Natural

Obvious

Open

Outspoken

Patent

Persuadable

Plain

Plainspoken

Public

Real

Sincere

Sincerity

Straightforward

True

Unaffected

Unconcealed

Unforced

Unguarded

Unpretentious

Unsafe

Unstudied

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Related Words

Artifice

Aspiring

Astute

Backhanded

Calculating

Canny

Chicane

Chicanery

Circuitous

Circular

Clandestine

Concealed

Covert

Crooked

Cutthroat

Deceitful

Deceptive

Designing

Dishonest

Engineering

Facile

Framing

Fraudulent

Furtive

Glib

Going

Hanky-panky

Hatching

Heady

Hypocritical

Immoral

Insincere

Insinuating

Intending

Jugglery

Knavish

Left-handed

Legerdemain

Machiavellian

Mapping

Mealy

Mealymouthed

Meaning

Oblique

Planning

Roundabout

Secret

Serpentine

Shady

Sharp

Shifty

Skulduggery

Slippery

Smart

Smooth-tongued

Sneaky

Stealthy

Subterfuge

Surreptitious

Treacherous

Two-faced

Unconscionable

Undercover

Underhand

Underhanded

Unethical

Unprincipled

Unscrupulous

Wile

Witted

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