Knowing and Scheming

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Knowing adjective - Having or showing a practical cleverness or judgment.

Usage example: knowing movie producers do not invest their own money in their risky ventures

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Scheming and knowing are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Scheming" instead an adjective "Knowing".

Nearby Words: know, known, knowingly

Scheming adjective - Clever at attaining one's ends by indirect and often deceptive means.

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Knowing and scheming are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Knowing" instead an adjective "Scheming".

Nearby Words: scheme, schemed, schemer

In Tangled Webs a drow said that they have a proverb "Revenge is Best Served Cold"... and the second meaning is that knowing there's a scheming vengeful bastard out to get you usually has the target sweating long before the actual revenge is done..

Source: Paranoia Gambit
His scheming includes him replacing Heath's newborn daughter with his own so that he can torment his brother knowing she would grow up into a spoiled brat, manipulating a mob to kill Daria, and convincing everyone that Rollo wants to marry Hildegard.

Source: Western Animation / The Princess and the Pea
Doing "the right thing" and being "a real straight edge." Actually Pretty Funny: This trope is a large part of why Black Dow keeps Calder around, even while knowing he's a scheming double-crosser, as he finds Calder's sarcastic comments (including some of the ones about himself) to be amusing.

Source: Literature / The Heroes

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