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plotting
adjective as in deep
adjective as in Machiavellian
adjective as in sly
Strongest matches
Weak matches
- arch
- artful
- astute
- bluffing
- cagey
- calculating
- captious
- conniving
- covert
- crafty
- crooked
- cunning
- deceitful
- deceptive
- delusive
- designing
- dishonest
- dishonorable
- dissembling
- double-dealing
- elusive
- foxy
- furtive
- guileful
- illusory
- insidious
- mean
- scheming
- secret
- sharp
- shifty
- slick
- smooth
- sneaking
- stealthy
- traitorous
- treacherous
- tricky
- underhand
- unscrupulous
- wily
adjective as in sneaking
Strong matches
Weak matches
- artful
- astute
- cagey
- canny
- captious
- covert
- crafty
- cunning
- deceitful
- deceptive
- delusive
- dishonest
- dishonorable
- double-dealing
- elusive
- foxy
- furtive
- guileful
- illusory
- impish
- ingenious
- insidious
- mischievous
- roguish
- secret
- secretive
- sharp
- shifty
- shrewd
- sneaky
- stealthy
- subtle
- surreptitious
- traitorous
- treacherous
- tricky
- underhand
- unscrupulous
- wily
noun as in outlining
Example Sentences
Ms Hoskins, however, claims Mr Bunting had been "plotting with other colleagues" to place chocolate in her office.
A master of plotting and characterization, French uses the tropes of the detective novel to explore greater themes of class and cultural imperialism.
In 2011, a US court cleared Rana of directly plotting the attacks but convicted him of supporting the Lashkar-e-Taiba.
For Fahy, plotting life after “The Bold Type,” which ended in 2021, included auditioning for the role of a wealthy but unhappy trophy wife in the first season of “The White Lotus.”
Libyan authorities have accused aid groups of plotting to change the country's ethnic make-up by encouraging African migrants to stay there, and has ordered them to close their offices.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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