Antonyms for scheming
| Grammar : Adj |
| Spell : skee-ming |
| Phonetic Transcription : ˈski mɪŋ |
Definition of scheming
Origin :- 1550s, "figure of speech," from Medieval Latin schema "shape, figure, form, appearance; figure of speech; posture in dancing," from Greek skhema (genitive skhematos) "figure, appearance, the nature of a thing," related to skhein "to get," and ekhein "to have," from PIE root *segh- "to hold, to hold in one's power, to have" (cf. Sanskrit sahate "he masters, overcomes," sahah "power, victory;" Avestan hazah "power, victory;" Greek ekhein "to have, hold;" Gothic sigis, Old High German sigu, Old Norse sigr, Old English sige "victory").
- The sense "program of action" first is attested 1640s. Unfavorable overtones (selfish, devious) began to creep in early 18c. Meaning "complex unity of coordinated component elements" is from 1736. Color scheme is attested from 1884.
- adj deceitful, sly
- He's been scheming, ever since I told him you were coming, to get out of driving in to meet you.
- Extract from : « Chip, of the Flying U » by B. M. Bower
- Why, you've got all Nature on your side, plotting and scheming for you.
- Extract from : « The Trimming of Goosie » by James Hopper
- The Carlists were scheming, and the Cortes was driven to an immediate decision.
- Extract from : « A Short History of Spain » by Mary Platt Parmele
- He had been wondering and scheming how to compel the Spokesmen of the Gens to obey his will.
- Extract from : « Astounding Stories of Super-Science July 1930 » by Various
- You know he has been scheming all along to take her from you.
- Extract from : « Bloom of Cactus » by Robert Ames Bennet
- We are scheming against you and your country, and you know it, and we shall win.
- Extract from : « Mr. Grex of Monte Carlo » by E. Phillips Oppenheim
- You're as bad as the rest of them, all scheming and plotting against me, betraying me.
- Extract from : « Space Viking » by Henry Beam Piper
- Will you take me, also, out of this hell of plotting and scheming, and this chaos of exile and death?
- Extract from : « Princess Zara » by Ross Beeckman
- She's been angling and scheming for it for years, but she will find who she has to deal with.
- Extract from : « Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1907 to 1908 » by Lucy Maud Montgomery
- Too unpractical, too visionary, with all his brains and scheming.
- Extract from : « Benita, An African Romance » by H. Rider Haggard
Synonyms for scheming
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