Innocent
Innocent adjective - Free from any intent to deceive or impress others.
Usage example: an innocent offer to sing before the gathering
Scheming
Scheming adjective - Clever at attaining one's ends by indirect and often deceptive means.
Usage example: the novel is about an elderly man and his scheming son who is impatient to inherit the family fortune
Both words in one sentence
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Jose Packard is shown smoking using a cigarette holder just before it is revealed that she is not so innocent and is scheming with Benjamin Horne
Source: Good Smoking, Evil Smoking -
Little Eldie Porter, five years old, has blonde, curly hair and entirely innocent in her parents' scheming.
Source: Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold -
In an online teaser chapter for the upcoming The Winds of Winter, a play called The Bloody Hand has Tyrion Lannister demonised as a scheming Richard III-type villain who rapes an innocent virgin.
Source: Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil
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