How To Use Schemer In A Sentence
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Unlike the good-natured bumbler from the Disney cartoon, this honey-happy bear is a manipulative, abrasive, self-indulgent schemer who is clearly unapologetic in his larcenous adventure.
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On the other hand I have known it to happen that a prisoner went and complained to the doctor, who roughly told him he was a "schemer," and the following week the prisoner was dead.
Six Years in the Prisons of England
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Whether they are hotheads or cool schemers, their intransigent speeches act as balm to their audience's wounds.
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Macbeth is a schemer and plotter who is eventually undone by his own misdeeds.
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As a Marxist, I try desperately not to fall into the ‘conspiracy’ trap; history is made by massive social forces, not by plotting schemers or ahistorical supermen.
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But where is the evidence to suggest that it will be any different this time, that the families of these privileged political schemers won't duck the draft just as they've always done in the past?
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Prospero mildly rebuked all the schemers of evil.
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Besides being a very good dribbler, he was a planner and a schemer.
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Well, 35 years ago today, NASA gave the world's dreamers and schemers a ready-made rationale for anything.
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Here he encounters all manner of dreamers, schemers, and conspiracy theorists.
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That was why the prefect of studies had called him a schemer and pandied him for nothing: and, straining his weak eyes, tired with the tears, he watched big Corrigan's broad shoulders and big hanging black head passing in the file.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
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No, not our leading Iraq liar and schemer, congressional inquiry obstructor, "energy policy" conspirator, no-bid-contract "coordinator," and duck-hunter extraordinaire -- not Cheney, of course, but Al Gore.
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Joker said he's not a "schemer" where as the Riddler is nothing but.
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a double-faced infernal traitor and schemer
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He knew I had figured the odds-but it didn't make any difference, because that is the kind of schemer Xanth needs in a King, and he knew it.
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As readers of Stephenie Meyer's bestsellers know - and as anyone who saw the first two films could have guessed - The Twilight Saga: Eclipse focuses on the romantic triangle between mortal Bella (Kristen Stewart), vampire Edward (Robert Pattinson) and werewolf Jacob (Taylor Lautner), with blood-slurper and body-morpher forced to team up to protect their gal from undead schemer Victoria (Bryce Dallas Howard, replacing Montreal's Rachelle Lefevre).
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At worst, he was a weak-willed, empty-headed, partially-recovered alcoholic led around by powerful, evil-minded, self-serving, greasy little schemers like Dick Cheney who led us into war for no larger reason than their own greed and vanity.
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He is a dreamer, a schemer, but truth is young Ruskin is puny, skinny and, in the tradition of geeky leads, he wears glasses.
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In fact, John Major promises to emerge mildly well from the schemers' cauldron.
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According to police sources, last year one man claimed to have been swindled out of US $200,000 by similar schemers.
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A gentleman, however, had the presence of mind to stand beside the till, and though all was confusion, the schemers were thwarted.
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The man was totally without guile, which is why he was so refreshing to a Machiavellian schemer like Halcon.
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Whether they are hotheads or cool schemers, their intransigent speeches act as balm to their audience's wounds.
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In a slip of the tongue the schemer exposed his true motivation.
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And "The Major and the Minor," with Rogers's clear-eyed schemer masquerading as a child to save money.
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The youthful Yu Hua is something of a wise guy and a schemer, pitting himself against bureaucratic inanities.
Cultural Lexicon
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The two schemers fall for each other but there's a lot of revenge-fuelled chicanery before love wins through.
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In “Earth's Holocaust” we get the first result of Hawthorne's insight into the demonianism of reformatory schemers who forget that the centre of every true reform is the heart.
A Study Of Hawthorne
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It also purveyed the well-thumbed Roman myths: that everyone in the ancient world was a backstabbing, double-dealing, amoral schemer, and that none of them could muster the self-control of a priapic ferret or the wisdom of a brick.
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Wodehouse remained completely aloof from the tumult of the world, unable to comprehend the cads, schemers and plotters.
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Tennyson was also known as a schemer and operator.
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Then to be called a schemer before the class and to be pandied when he always got the card for first or second and was the leader of the Yorkists!
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
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At the end, I was left more astonished and impressed than ever by the feats of the postpunk adventurers - these strivers and visionaries, schemers and dreamers.
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The picture could be a physiognomical paradigm of a conspirator, a machinator, a schemer, a Machiavel.
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We tend to view politicians either as Machiavellian schemers or as dolts.
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But, for Homer, there is a calculated pun on words too, because his hero is a cunning schemer.
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But pre-Mean Steets days, Runyon's stories of small-time gamblers, wise guys and schemers were classics of warmth and humour - which is why they lent themselves to musicals such as Guys and Dolls.
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Her reward for playing the "sexism card" was relentless grilling by some members of the all-male Judiciary Committee and being characterized as a schemer, a vixen, a liar and a tramp.
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Consequently, you get an evening of light, frothy entertainment as you revel in the filthy deeds the schemers get up to and share their delight at the misfortune of others.
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It's up to Bob Hope to rat out the schemers to the FBI.
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He would also welcome any plotters and schemers who wish to hatch revolutionary plans in the quiet room upstairs.
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Then to be called a schemer before the class and to be pandied when he always got the card for first or second and was the leader of the Yorkists!
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
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‘Let the plotters plot all they want, for God is still the best of schemers,’ he said.
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In "Earth's Holocaust" we get the first result of Hawthorne's insight into the demonianism of reformatory schemers who forget that the centre of every true reform is the heart.
A Study of Hawthorne
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His crew chief is an untrustworthy schemer who hates teammate Hank for stealing his girlfriend.
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It is surely a grim coincidence that this series, portraying footballers as filthy-rich hedonistic schemers, began a new run in the very week that Scottish football eyeballed a financial abyss.
