schemer
Example Sentences
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She picked up an Actors Award nomination earlier this month for playing Rachel, the film’s chaos-creating schemer.
From Los Angeles Times
Once again, a boy from here teams up with a girl from there to defeat a villainous schemer bent on cruel domination.
There may be no better time for a schemer like Ashur to be resurrected from the underworld.
From Salon
She has a knack for heightening moments and introducing characters that range from sad, weird loners to shifty and overconfident schemers.
From Los Angeles Times
“The old schemer was hiding in the woods. I flushed him out of the bushes like a hound flushes out a fox. A merry hunt it was, wouldn’t you say, Eddie, old boy?”
From Literature
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
