Planning; contriving.

Given to forming schemes; artful; intriguing.

adjective. Given to forming schemes; artful; intriguing.

verb. Present participle of scheme.

adjective. Tending to scheme.

adjective. used of persons

adjective. concealing crafty designs for advancing your own interest

"And, the obvious political scheming is equally indefensible to the point that unless I hear something that modifies, retracts or in some way qualifies what I think he is saying, I will no longer be able to speak on his behalf."

calculating  

artful  hard  

Dreaming  beaming  dreaming  gleaming  leming  

Byzantine  Machiavellian  Machiavellic  acute  arch  

scheme