Guileful
Guileful adjective - Clever at attaining one's ends by indirect and often deceptive means.
Usage example: tried to fix the game with a guileful plot to sabotage the other team's bats, but the umpire caught them
Plotting and guileful are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Plotting" instead an adjective "Guileful".
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Plotting and Guileful. (2016). Retrieved 2026, August 16, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/guileful/plotting
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