schemer
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- noun
- /ˈskimər/
- Offensive
- She was known as a schemer, always plotting to achieve her personal goals.
- Ponzi schemer
- a devious schemer
- Machiavellian schemer
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Watch on YouTubeBernie Madoff is from my town, the biggest Ponzi scheme schemer ever.
- Bernie Madoff is from my town, the biggest Ponzi scheme schemer ever.
- He calls it a Ponzi scheme, yet he is the biggest Ponzi schemer this country has ever seen.
- From CEOs to doctors to politicians, from stalkers to con men, from Ponzi schemers to grifters.
- From CE OS to doctors to politicians, from stalkers to con men, from Ponzi schemers to grifters.
Examples
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He'd been a dreamer once, a schemer, a man really going places.
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Oh, that double-crossing little schemer.
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Okay, Schemer, it's all set.
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What a schemer you are, Hellfire Boy.
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You could tell he was a schemer and planner.
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"You are quite the young schemer, did you know that?" She grinned, looking truly happy for the first time since he had seen her.
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Does that sound like Fitzgerald to you, or a schemer trying to play me for a sucker?
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We should not allow our values to be manipulated by media, politicians, schemers, and thieves.
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Not for the first time, Ella actually felt pity for these two schemers, who could be every bit as ugly within as they were fair without.
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Moehringer's Sutton is less a Robin Hood than a self-absorbed schemer.
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Synonyms
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A person who plans secret actions to harm or cheat others
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A person who secretly plans and helps with illegal actions
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A person who thinks up clever plans or ideas
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A person who secretly tries to get an advantage by tricking others
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A person who secretly plans to trick others for personal gain
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A person who gets things by tricking or lying to others
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A person who secretly puts different groups together to gain advantage
A person who tricks others using clever, dishonest methods to get what they want
How Devious
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Etymology
Schemer comes from scheme, which goes back to an old Greek word skhēma meaning 'shape' or 'form'. So a schemer is someone who 'shapes' plans — often in secret or in a clever, not honest, way.