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schemer

[ skee-mer ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

noun

someone who devises plans or plots, especially underhanded ones:
She is one of the memorable characters in literature, a born schemer and social climber unencumbered by any need to tell the truth.

Origin of schemer¹

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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