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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | plan, scheme |
| Synonyms: | angle, brew*, cabal, cogitate, collude, conceive, concoct, connive, conspire, contrive, cook up, design, devise, draft, finagle, frame, hatch, imagine, intrigue, lay*, machinate, maneuver, operate, outline, project, promote, rough out, set up, sketch, wangle |
| Antonyms: | forget, neglect |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | deep |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | scheming, devious |
| Synonyms: | acute, artful, astute, canny, contriving, crafty, cunning, designing, foxy, guileful, insidious, intriguing, keen, knowing, plotting, sharp, shrewd, sly, tricky, wily |
| Antonyms: | aboveboard, artless, open |
| Main Entry: | Machiavellian |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | scheming |
| Synonyms: | artful, astute, calculating, conniving, contriving, crafty, cunning, deceitful, devious, expedient, opportunist, plotting, shrewd, sly, underhanded, unscrupulous, wily |
| Main Entry: | sly |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | clever, devious |
| Synonyms: | arch, artful, astute, bluffing, cagey, calculating, canny, captious, conniving, covert, crafty, crooked, cunning, deceitful, deceptive, delusive, designing, dishonest, dishonorable, dissembling, double-dealing, elusive, foxy, furtive, guileful, illusory, impish, ingenious, insidious, intriguing, mean, mischievous, plotting, roguish, scheming, secret, sharp, shifty, shrewd, slick, smart, smooth, sneaking, stealthy, subtle, traitorous, treacherous, tricky, underhand, unscrupulous, wily |
| Antonyms: | honest, open, simple, straight, straightforward, unclever |
| Main Entry: | outlining |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | sketching |
| Synonyms: | aligning, banding, bounding, charting, circumscribing, delimiting, delineating, delineating, depicting, designing, diagramming, drafting, drawing, drawing up, girdling, mapping, planning, plotting, projecting, tracing |
| Main Entry: | sneaking |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | sly |
| Synonyms: | arch, artful, astute, bluffing, cagey, calculating, canny, captious, conniving, covert, crafty, crooked, cunning, deceitful, deceptive, delusive, designing, dishonest, dishonorable, dissembling, double-dealing, elusive, foxy*, furtive, guileful, illusory, impish, ingenious, insidious, intriguing, mean, mischievous, plotting, roguish, scheming, secret, secretive, sharp, shifty, shrewd, slick*, smart*, smooth*, sneaky, stealthy, subtle, surreptitious, traitorous, treacherous, tricky, underhand, unscrupulous, wily |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | angle for |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | attempt to get |
| Synonyms: | aim for, be after, cast about for, connive, conspire, contrive, fish for, hint, hunt, invite, look for, maneuver, plan, plot, scheme, seek, solicit, strive, try for |
| Main Entry: | brew |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | plan, devise |
| Synonyms: | breed, compound, concoct, contrive, develop, excite, foment, form, gather, hatch, impend, loom, mull, plot, project, scheme, start, stir up, weave |
| Main Entry: | chart |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | plan, map out |
| Synonyms: | arrange, block out, blueprint, cast, delineate, design, devise, draft, graph, lay out, outline, plot, project, shape, sketch |
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