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- adjective Not
scheming ; simple and honest.
Etymologies
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un- + scheming
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Examples
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Mizuki: It must be that unscheming, calm and unassuming nature after all.
Extra: Darker than Black – main cast interview « Undercover 2007
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Given a love affair, and a certain interest in it, the most unscheming nature becomes Macchiavellian in tact and policy.
Bluebell A Novel Mrs. George Croft Huddleston
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The thought of that busy, ambitious life, come to this unscheming repose under our feet, -- so far from the scene of its hopes, successes, and defeats, -- gave its own touch of solemnity to the time and place, and helped the offended sense of propriety through the bursts of operatic music, which interspersed the mass.
Venetian Life William Dean Howells 1878
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