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"I am schemingly ambitious, but I am not utterly treacherous!" he objects indignantly.

From The Guardian • Jan. 17, 2011

He has Passed, and one of those—Tiao by name," said the other, referring to a parchment—"has schemingly driven out the rest and held the patrimony.

From Kai Lung's Golden Hours by Bramah, Ernest