Scheming in a sentence as an adjective

Do you spend all day scheming ways to exploit people?

When it comes to financial scheming they give Wall Street a real run for their money.

There is a certain culture of two-faced, get-rich-quick scheming there.

As an engineer at Zynga, you spend your time developing to spec, not scheming.

Every second they spent scheming about Reader cost them millions in Ad Sense revenue; hence, there was no scheming.

How about tracing down budget expenditures to see who was scheming to defraud taxpayers?

MtGox has been lying and scheming all the way, showing complete lack of respect for either their users or Bitcoin community at large.

From the article, I only detected scheming and FUD, not rational decision making.

Going to such extremes to "fight the system", to be the counter-weight to whatever scheming superpower there is, corrupts.

It's probably the reason I haven't ever fallen for an MBA idea-guy's scheming, I had plenty of practice listening to the ******** streaming out of old guys' mouths back home.

Especially considering the amount of time we spent thinking/scheming/talking versus the scarce minutes in the evening actually "playing" the game.

That is only because Uber has decided to. Tomorrow Uber could put a price on the app and then when you get there double it for "unforeseen traffic conditions".Before regulation taxis were experts at scamming and scheming their way into higher fares.

We're decently paid clerks that perform an essential task for our scheming, private jet flying, yes, thuggish overlords that for now at least haven't become computer literate themselves.

Due to a broken hiring process and union-like job security, it is filled with incompetent morons constantly scheming to find any desperate way they can to demonstrate value.

From the POV of a scheming politician in power, harmless gestures would certainly seem much less important than agents of your potential downfall communicating in ways that you can't penetrate.

If everything is true in Jeff's article about his past and current life, I'd have to believe that he probably is just a scheming possibly paranoid psychopath, though still a little skeptical that he shot his neighbor to death.

A common issue where this responsibility needs to be better policed is lopsided risk decisions where in many cases executives can make large bonuses and on rare occasions they don't make a bonus while shareholders lose big - a complicated mess of scheming and tricky incentives that can in extreme cases amount to theft.

Scheming definitions

adjective

used of persons; "the most calculating and selfish men in the community"

See also: calculating calculative conniving shrewd

adjective

concealing crafty designs for advancing your own interest; "a selfish and designing nation obsessed with the dark schemes of European intrigue"- W.Churchill; "a scheming wife"; "a scheming gold digger"

See also: designing