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What is another word for up to something?

Pronunciation: [ˌʌp tə sˈʌmθɪŋ] (IPA)

When you say that someone is "up to something", it generally means that they are plotting or planning something, often with a negative connotation. However, there are other ways to express this idea using synonyms and related phrases. For example, you could say that someone is scheming, conniving, or plotting. They may be hatching a plan, mapping out a strategy, or laying the groundwork for something. Others might be planning something mischief, plotting something sinister, or devising a diabolical scheme. Whatever the case may be, there are many different ways to describe someone who is up to no good or is simply keeping their plans under wraps.
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A hypernym is a word with a broad meaning that encompasses more specific words called hyponyms.

Famous quotes with Up to something

  • I think now I'm up to something like 85 different titles that I've published.
    Kevin J. Anderson
  • Physicists and astronomers see their own implications in the world being round, but to me it means that only one-third of the world is asleep at any given time and the other two-thirds is up to something.
    David Dean Rusk
  • I don’t want to be an alarmist, but I think that the Younger Generation is up to something.... I base my apprehension on nothing more definite than the fact that they are always coming in and going out of the house, without any apparent reason.
    Robert Benchley
  • The characteristic paranoias of youth — the attribution of intention and duplicity to almost all human behavior. The young suffer terribly from the belief that the people they encounter are most of them up to something and that something has some relation to themselves. Actually, of course, most people just bobble along like apples in a stream. Usually it takes many years of experience to realize this.
    Kenneth Rexroth
  • His appearance gives no clue to what his profession might be, and yet he doesn't look like a man without a profession either. Consider what he's like: He always knows what to do. He knows how to gaze into a woman's eyes. He can put his mind to any question at any time. He can box. He is gifted, strong-willed, open-minded, fearless, tenacious, dashing, circumspect — why quibble, suppose we grant him all those qualities — yet he has none of them! They have made him what he is, they have set his course for him, and yet they don't belong to him. When he is angry, something in him laughs. When he is sad, he is up to something. When something moves him, he turns against it. He'll always see a good side to every bad action. What he thinks of anything will always depend on some possible context — nothing is, to him, what it is: everything is subject to change, in flux, part of a whole, of an infinite number of wholes presumably adding up to a super-whole that, however, he knows nothing about. So every answer he gives is only a partial answer, every feeling an opinion, and he never cares what something is, only 'how' it is — some extraneous seasoning that somehow goes along with it, that's what interests him.
    Robert Musil

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