- calculating, calculative, conniving, scheming, shrewd - used of persons; "the most calculating and selfish men in the community"
Antonym: soft (indirect, via hard)
- designing, scheming - 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"
Antonym: artless (indirect, via artful)
- scheme, intrigue, connive - form intrigues (for) in an underhand manner
--1 is one way to plot
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s PP
- scheme - devise a system or form a scheme for
--2 is one way to plan
Sample sentences:Derived forms: noun scheme5, noun scheme4, noun schemer1
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s VERB-ing