If you describe someone as conniving, you mean you dislike them because they make secret plans in order to get things for themselves or harm other people.
例句
Edith was seen as a conniving, greedy woman.人們認(rèn)為伊迪絲是一個詭計多端的貪婪女人。
英英詞典釋義
Adjective
1. acting together in secret toward a fraudulent or illegal end
2. used of persons;
"the most calculating and selfish men in the community"