Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who schemes or contrives; a projector; a contriver; a plotter.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who forms schemes; a projector; esp., a plotter; an intriguer.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun One who
plots orschemes , who formulates plans. - noun One who is given to
scheming .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a planner who draws up a personal scheme of action
Etymologies
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Examples
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Then to be called a schemer before the class and to be pandied when he always got the card for first or second and was the leader of the Yorkists!
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Tennyson was also known as a schemer and operator.
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Then to be called a schemer before the class and to be pandied when he always got the card for first or second and was the leader of the Yorkists!
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man Joyce, James, 1882-1941 1922
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Then to be called a schemer before the class and to be pandied when he always got the card for first or second and was the leader of the Yorkists!
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man Joyce, James, 1882-1941 1922
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Then to be called a schemer before the class and to be pandied when he always got the card for first or second and was the leader of the Yorkists!
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man James Joyce 1911
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Her reward for playing the "sexism card" was relentless grilling by some members of the all-male Judiciary Committee and being characterized as a schemer, a vixen, a liar and a tramp.
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Joker said he's not a "schemer" where as the Riddler is nothing but.
Contest: Where Could The Dark Knight Go Next? « FirstShowing.net 2008
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He knew I had figured the odds-but it didn't make any difference, because that is the kind of schemer Xanth needs in a King, and he knew it.
A Spell For Chameleon Anthony, Piers 1977
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He knew I had figured the odds-but it didn't make any difference, because that is the kind of schemer Xanth needs in a King, and he knew it.
A Spell For Chameleon Anthony, Piers 1977
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On the other hand I have known it to happen that a prisoner went and complained to the doctor, who roughly told him he was a "schemer," and the following week the prisoner was dead.
Six Years in the Prisons of England A Merchant - Anonymous
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