" plotting "

1: as in calculating;

•  Synonyms : 

•  calculating,

•  clandestine,

•  concealed,

•  covert,

•  furtive,

•  hugger-mugger,

•  secret,

•  stealthy,

•  surreptitious,

•  undercover,

•  circuitous,

•  circular,

•  roundabout,

•  backhanded,

•  double-dealing,

•  hypocritical,

•  insincere,

•  left-handed,

•  mealy,

•  mealymouthed,

•  smooth-tongued,

•  two-faced,

•  crooked,

•  deceitful,

•  deceptive,

•  dishonest,

•  fraudulent,

•  insinuating,

•  knavish,

•  Machiavellian,

•  oblique,

•  serpentine,

•  shady,

•  shifty,

•  slippery,

•  sneaky,

•  treacherous,

•  underhand,

•  underhanded,

•  unscrupulous,

•  astute,

•  facile,

•  glib,

•  sharp,

•  artful,

•  beguiling,

•  cagey,

•  crafty,

•  cunning,

•  cute,

•  designing,

•  devious,

•  dodgy,

•  foxy,

•  guileful,

•  scheming,

•  shrewd,

•  slick,

•  sly,

•  subtle,

•  tricky,

•  wily

•  Antonyms : 

•  artless,

•  guileless,

•  ingenuous,

•  innocent,

•  undesigning,

•  obvious,

•  open,

•  patent,

•  plain,

•  public,

•  unconcealed,

•  aboveboard,

•  candid,

•  direct,

•  forthright,

•  frank,

•  honest,

•  natural,

•  outspoken,

•  plainspoken,

•  real,

•  simple,

•  sincere,

•  straightforward,

•  unaffected,

•  unpretending,

•  unpretentious,

•  unvarnished,

•  childlike,

•  impressionable,

•  simpleminded,

•  unsophisticated,

•  unworldly,

•  unforced,

•  unstudied,

•  trustful,

•  trusting

1: as in design, scheming;

•  Synonyms : 

•  design,

•  scheming,

•  secrecy,

•  stealth,

•  dirty pool,

•  dirty tricks,

•  fakery,

•  humbuggery,

•  imposture,

•  quackery,

•  crookedness,

•  crookery,

•  deceit,

•  deceitfulness,

•  deception,

•  deceptiveness,

•  dishonesty,

•  dissimulation,

•  double-dealing,

•  dupery,

•  duplicity,

•  guile,

•  guilefulness,

•  hypocrisy,

•  insincerity,

•  artfulness,

•  caginess,

•  craftiness,

•  cunning,

•  deviousness,

•  foxiness,

•  oiliness,

•  shadiness,

•  sharpness,

•  shiftiness,

•  shrewdness,

•  slickness,

•  slipperiness,

•  slyness,

•  sneakiness,

•  treachery,

•  underhandedness,

•  wiliness,

•  artifice,

•  chicane,

•  chicanery,

•  gamesmanship,

•  hanky-panky,

•  jiggery-pokery,

•  jugglery,

•  legerdemain,

•  skulduggery,

•  subterfuge,

•  trickery,

•  wile

•  Antonyms : 

•  artlessness,

•  forthrightness,

•  guilelessness,

•  ingenuousness,

•  sincerity,

•  candidness,

•  candor,

•  directness,

•  openness,

•  plainness,

•  plainspokenness

1: to engage in a secret plan to accomplish evil or unlawful ends;

  * e.g., " ... mobsters were caught plotting to take over the company "

•  Synonyms : 

•  colluding,

•  compassing,

•  conniving,

•  conspiring,

•  contriving,

•  intriguing,

•  machinating,

•  putting up,

•  scheming

•  Antonyms : 

• (N/A)

1: to engage in a secret plan to accomplish evil or unlawful ends;

  * e.g., " ... mobsters were caught plotting to take over the company "

•  Synonyms : 

•  collude,

•  compass,

•  connive,

•  conspire,

•  contrive,

•  intrigue,

•  machinate,

•  put up,

•  scheme

•  Antonyms : 

• (N/A)