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Furtive vs Scheming - What's the difference?

furtive | scheming |

As adjectives the difference between furtive and scheming

is that furtive is stealthy while scheming is (pejorative) tending to.

As a verb scheming is

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furtive

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • stealthy
  • Exhibiting guilty or evasive secrecy.
  • * 1949 , George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four , p31
    • But that was merely a piece of furtive knowledge which he happened to possess because his memory was not satisfactorily under control.

    Synonyms

    * (stealthy) surreptitious * See also

    Derived terms

    * furtively * furtiveness

    scheming

    English

    Verb

    (head)

    • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (pejorative) Tending to .