plotting (?.)

• Byzantine
• Machiavellian
• artifice
• cabal
• calculating
• collusion
• collusive
• complicity
• complot
• confederacy
• connivance
• connivent
• conniving
• conspiracy
• conspiring
• contrivance
• contriving
• counterplot
• covin
• deep-laid plot
• designing
• engineering
• finagling
• finesse
• frame-up
• game
• intrigue
• intriguing
• little game
• machination
• maneuvering
• manipulation
• packed deal
• packed jury
• planning
• plot
• prearrangement
• preconcertedness
• premeditation
• preordering
• put-up job
• rigged jury
• rigging
• scheme
• schemery
• scheming
• setup
• stacked deck
• stratagem
• stratagemical
• trick
• underplot
• up to
• web of intrigue
• wire-pulling