If you describe someone as ~, you mean you dislike them because they make secret plans in order to get things for themselves or harm other people.
Edith was seen as a ~, greedy woman.
= scheming
ADJ: usu ADJ n disapproval
If you describe someone as ~, you mean you dislike them because they make secret plans in order to get things for themselves or harm other people.
Edith was seen as a ~, greedy woman.
= scheming
ADJ: usu ADJ n disapproval
Collins COBUILD. Толковый словарь английского языка для изучающих язык Коллинз COBUILD (международная база данных языков Бирмингемского университета) . 2012