designing, scheming
(adjective) 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”
calculating, calculative, conniving, scheming, shrewd
(adjective) acting with a specific goal; “the most calculating and selfish men in the community”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
scheming
present participle of scheme
scheming (comparative more scheming, superlative most scheming)
(pejorative) Tending to scheme; forming underhand plots.
scheming (countable and uncountable, plural schemings)
The activity or practice of making secret or underhanded plans.
Source: Wiktionary
Schem"ing, a.
Definition: Given to forming schemes; artful; intriguing.
– Schem"ing*ly, adv.
Scheme, n. Etym: [L. schema a rhetorical figure, a shape, figure, manner, Gr. sah to be victorious, to endure, to hold out, AS. sige victory, G. sieg. Cf. Epoch, Hectic, School.]
1. A combination of things connected and adjusted by design; a system. The appearance and outward scheme of things. Locke. Such a scheme of things as shall at once take in time and eternity. Atterbury. Arguments . . . sufficient to support and demonstrate a whole scheme of moral philosophy. J. Edwards. The Revolution came and changed his whole scheme of life. Macaulay.
2. A plan or theory something to be done; a design; a project; as, to form a scheme. The stoical scheme of supplying our wants by lopping off our desires, is like cuttig off our feet when we want shoes. Swift.
3. Any lineal or mathematical diagram; an outline. To draw an exact scheme of Constantinople, or a map of France. South.
4. (Astrol.)
Definition: A representation of the aspects of the celestial bodies for any moment o at a given event. A blue case, from which was drawn a scheme of nativity. Sir W. Scott.
Syn.
– Plan; project; contrivance; purpose; device; plot.
– Scheme, Plan. Scheme and plan are subordinate to design; they propose modes of carrying our designs into effect. Scheme is the least definite of the two, and lies more in speculation. A plan is drawn out into details with a view to being carried into effect. As schemes are speculative, they often prove visionary; hence the opprobrious use of the words schemer and scheming. Plans, being more practical, are more frequently carried into effect. He forms the well-concerted scheme of mischief; 'T is fixed, 't is done, and both are doomed to death. Rowe. Artists and plans relieved my solemn hours; I founded palaces, and planted bowers. prior.
Scheme, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Schemed; p. pr. & vb. n. Scheming.]
Definition: To make a scheme of; to plan; to design; to project; to plot. That wickedness which schemed, and executed, his destruction. G. Stuart.
Scheme, v. i.
Definition: To form a scheme or schemes.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
29 June 2024
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The Boston Tea Party helped popularize coffee in America. The hefty tea tax imposed on the colonies in 1773 resulted in America switching from tea to coffee. In the lead up to the Revolutionary War, it became patriotic to sip java instead of tea. The Civil War made the drink more pervasive. Coffee helped energize tired troops, and drinking it became an expression of freedom.
