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Pronunciation: [skˈiːməz] (IPA)

Schemers are individuals who engage in crafty and duplicitous activities in order to achieve their goals. Synonyms for the word schemers include conspirators, plotters, connivers, machinators, and intrigants. These words refer to individuals who engage in secretive planning and cunning maneuvers in order to achieve personal or political gain. Schemers are skilled at manipulating others and often employ underhanded tactics to achieve their objectives. Each of these words conveys a sense of deviousness and cunning that is associated with those who engage in scheming behavior. Ultimately, synonyms for schemers are useful for describing individuals who engage in clandestine activities aimed at advancing their interests, often at the expense of others.
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I tried as I walked to put myself in the place of the schemers, and thus hew out, through an intimate mental process, some idea as to how the loose ends of the mystery were to be disposed of.
"The House by the Lock"
C. N. Williamson
But they also-if they would obtain peace-must exercise an eternal vigilance lest they fall into the hands of class-schemers and be betrayed into that which they do not desire.
"The Healing of Nations and the Hidden Sources of Their Strife"
Edward Carpenter
Bonaparte, however, preferred to keep the two cleverest and most questionable schemers of the age, so as mutually to check each other's movements.
"The Life of Napoleon I (Volumes, 1 and 2)"
John Holland Rose

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  • The New World Order schemers are absolutely determined to have their way. They have been able to go a long way toward their goal by using subterfuge and deceit. But ultimately the transformation of a world of independent nations into the global plantation they are aiming at will involve changes so profound and so traumatic that subterfuge and deceit will not be enough to keep the serfs under control. They will need raw police power, applied KGB style. They want to begin developing that power now. They're a pretty bold and arrogant bunch of schemers, but they understand that according to the old way of looking at things -- according to our way -- they are traitors. They understand that if the general public ever gets a real inkling of what they are up to, if they ever lose their grip on the situation, they'll all end up hanging from lampposts. What they are planning is so monstrous, so evil, that the thought of being brought to account for it frightens them. They want to use every means at their disposal to make sure their plan succeeds. And, my friends, we will resort to every means at our disposal to insure that their scheme does not succeed and that they do indeed end up hanging from lampposts.
    William Luther Pierce
  • Literary men are being employed to praise a big business man personally, as men used to praise a king. They not only find political reasons for the commercial schemes—that they have done for some time past—they also find moral defences for the commercial schemers. … I do resent the whole age of patronage being revived under such absurd patrons; and all poets becoming court poets, under kings that have taken no oath.
    G. K. Chesterton

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