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  • noun Plural form of schemer.

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Examples

  • She will not have her father and mother called schemers, and treated with scorn.

    The Virginians 2006

  • She will not have her father and mother called schemers, and treated with scorn.

    The Virginians William Makepeace Thackeray 1837

  • Details are sketchy but it appears the plan revolved around Travolta's recently-deceased son Jett, as one of the schemers was a paramedic who attended to

    Crabbie's Hollywood 2009

  • It will be acknowledged that he played his part well, when even during the shipwreck he had never made the slightest attempt to move, and kept up the deception for many months in a prison hospital, where the majority of the patients are put down as "schemers" unless they have an outward sore, or some natural malady with palpable external symptoms.

    Six Years in the Prisons of England A Merchant - Anonymous

  • The "schemers" slipped away quietly from the billets, crossed into the main thoroughfare and commenced a scrounging expedition for grub.

    Norman Ten Hundred A Record of the 1st (Service) Bn. Royal Guernsey Light Infantry A. Stanley Blicq

  • She described the Coughlins as "schemers" and "opportunists" who took advantage of the generous fund that Congress designed to give quick compensation to those physically injured and the families of those killed in the attacks on Sept. 11, 2001.

    Navy Times - News 2009

  • She described the Coughlins as "schemers" and "opportunists" who took advantage of the generous fund that Congress designed to give quick compensation to those physically injured and the families of those killed in the attacks on Sept. 11, 2001.

    kstp.com - MORE NEWS 2009

  • Thompson himself comes across, here and elsewhere, as the hardest of the hard-boiled, painting a world filled with nothing but schemers and self-dealers.

    November 2009 2009

  • Yes, by installing his own swindlers, insiders, schemers and other sleeze!

    McGinn Says He’ll Veto Tunnel Agreement; Council President Says Mayor is “Grandstanding” « PubliCola 2010

  • McGinn is fighting to rid this region of the swindlers, insiders, schemers and other sleeze that has plagued us for a decade now.

    McGinn Says He’ll Veto Tunnel Agreement; Council President Says Mayor is “Grandstanding” « PubliCola 2010

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