scheming

The activity or practice of making secret or underhanded plans.

Adjective

  1. Tending to scheme; forming underhand plots.

Origin

Etymology tree English scheme Proto-Indo-European *-onts Proto-Germanic *-ndz Proto-West Germanic *-andī Old English -ende Middle English -ynge English -ing English scheming From scheme + -ing.

Forms

more scheming most scheming

Synonyms

designing

Noun

  1. The activity or practice of making secret or underhanded plans.

Origin

Etymology tree English scheme Proto-Germanic *-ungō Old English -ung Middle English -ynge English -ing English scheming From scheme + -ing.

Forms

schemings

Verb

  1. present participle and gerund of scheme