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schemer

noun as in conniver

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Galvanized by the antiwar movement and the horror of Bloody Sunday in 1972, Dugdale began to involve herself in schemes supporting the IRA.

I’ve seen firsthand how importation schemes can put patients at risk.

Investigators working on Amazon’s behalf were able to confirm the scheme by placing orders through the links and receiving the advertised counterfeit goods.

Defensive players have often talked this season about the difficulty of the transition from the 3-4, two-gapping scheme under former coordinator Greg Manusky to the 4-3, attacking scheme of current coordinator Jack Del Rio.

He wants to build a 200-room tourist hotel on the Opgard grazing land, and his scheme is to finance the project with local villagers putting up their property as collateral.

Is that mass of cream cheese you put on a bagel a schemer or a shmeer?

And, second, how can he bust a drug dealer and a Ponzi schemer without endangering Rita and Mitzi?

Mansfield Frazier predicted the convicted schemer would be king of the prison yard long before he became an inmate.

Whether you're the masculine monster in this story or the feminine schemer, you're a dehumanized cartoon.

In the strange case of alleged Ponzi schemer Allen Stanford, a new bit player has emerged.

But, glad as was the schemer, his delight and sense of freedom were much inferior to those of his misguided and unlucky partner.

The revolution of Aranjuez was a bitter disappointment to the great schemer, and disconcerted his plans.

With the intuition of a born schemer Mina seized on the chance.

He was the schemer-in-chief; and the others, while disliking him heartily, were content to rely on his superior cunning.

The boy spoke eagerly, but the more wily schemer shook his head with positiveness.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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