Definitions for scheming

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scheming schem·ing

Spelling: [skee-ming]

IPA: /ˈski mɪŋ/

Scheming is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 16 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 19 points.

You can make 252 anagrams from letters in scheming (ceghimns).

Definitions for scheming

adjective

1. given to making plans, especially sly and underhand ones; crafty.

noun

1. a plan, design, or program of action to be followed; project.
2. an underhand plot; intrigue.
3. a visionary or impractical project.
4. a body or system of related doctrines, theories, etc.:
5. any system of correlated things, parts, etc., or the manner of its arrangement.
6. a plan, program, or policy officially adopted and followed, as by a government or business:
7. an analytical or tabular statement.
8. a diagram, map, or the like.
9. an astrological diagram of the heavens.

verb (used with object)

1. to devise as a scheme; plan; plot; contrive.

verb (used without object)

1. to lay schemes; devise plans; plot.

Origin of scheming

First recorded in 1830-40; scheme + -ing²

Examples for scheming

Why, you've got all Nature on your side, plotting and scheming for you.

We still have enemies who spend every waking hour scheming of ways to blow up that mall of imagined peacetime.

The Carlists were scheming, and the Cortes was driven to an immediate decision.

He's been scheming, ever since I told him you were coming, to get out of driving in to meet you.

You know he has been scheming all along to take her from you.

Even the most sketch-ball, scheming car mechanic knows how much those brake pads cost.

Mordred is a slave to his lust for the Queen, finding no outlet for his thwarted energies except in scheming action.

He had been wondering and scheming how to compel the Spokesmen of the Gens to obey his will.

Mantel, unfortunately, repeats the “scheming Anne” portrayal in her own novels.

The goal of my book is to empower people to see through this scheming.