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say it: SKEE-ming
scheming is an adjective meaning "acting with a specific goal". It carries 2 recorded senses.
concealing crafty designs for advancing your own interest
“a selfish and designing nation obsessed with the dark schemes of European intrigue”
“a scheming wife”
“a scheming gold digger”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for scheming come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.