Conniving
Conniving adjective - Acting together in secret toward a fraudulent or illegal end.
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Plotting and conniving are semantically related. in scheming topic. In some cases you can use "Plotting" instead the word "Conniving" as an adjective or a noun.
Nearby Words: connivance, connived
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If you're playing a Ventrue in Vampire: The Requiem, and you're not ruling a city, you're conniving and plotting to destroy and replace the current ruler.
Source: The Starscream -
Sssssnake Talk: Perhaps not snake talk per se but Daniel Hardman has a certain soft spoken conniving way of talking that makes him seem very sinister and plotting.
Source: Series / Suits
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