devious in English

adjective

1

showing a skillful use of underhanded tactics to achieve goals.

he's as devious as a politician needs to be

synonyms: underhanded, deceitful, dishonest, dishonorable, unethical, unprincipled, immoral, unscrupulous, fraudulent, dubious, unfair, treacherous, duplicitous, crafty, cunning, calculating, artful, conniving, scheming, sly, wily, sneaky, furtive, secret, clandestine, surreptitious, covert, snide, crooked, shady, dirty, lowdown

2

(of a route or journey) longer and less direct than the most straightforward way.

they arrived at the town by a devious route

synonyms: circuitous, roundabout, indirect, meandering, winding, tortuous

adjective

underhanded, deceitful, dishonest, dishonorable, unethical, unprincipled, immoral, unscrupulous, fraudulent, dubious, unfair, treacherous, duplicitous, crafty, cunning, calculating, artful, conniving, scheming, sly, wily, sneaky, furtive, secret, clandestine, surreptitious, covert, snide, crooked, shady, dirty, lowdown
circuitous, roundabout, indirect, meandering, winding, tortuous
shifty
roundabout, circuitous
oblique

Use "devious" in a sentence

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2. Baiting is Phishing’s devious cousin

3. Never Resort to Devious Methods

4. He is neither devious nor manipulative.

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6. Antlions are devious, cold-blooded killers

7. Let's take the devious route home.

8. And whose entire course is devious.

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11. Backhanded definition is - indirect, devious; especially : sarcastic

12. 1 Let's take the devious route home.

13. 6 He got rich by devious means.

14. 32 For Jehovah detests a devious person,+

15. Her saintly manner concealed a devious mind.

16. 18 O'Rourke has a very devious mind.

17. 16 She says we have devious minds!

18. 7 He has a very devious mind.

19. She is devious and sly and manipulative.

20. 19 Or was it as devious as that?

21. 8 He had been devious and two-faced.

22. 5 She is devious and sly and manipulative.

23. And keep devious talk far away from you.

24. 23 However, the tactics have become more devious.

25. 9 Her saintly manner concealed a devious mind.

26. 3 Her saintly manner concealed a devious mind.

27. 2 She is devious and sly and manipulative.

28. He was as devious as his adversary was ruthless.

29. 22 Why should women resort to such devious tactics?

30. If that sounds calculating and devious, consider the alternatives.

31. What does Artificer mean? A deceptive or devious person

32. • What devious plot did the high officials and satraps devise?

33. 17 Devious himself, he admired the same quality in her.

34. 21 Opportunism is a devious kind of self-interested behaviour.

35. 20 If that sounds calculating and devious, consider the alternatives.

36. A daring and devious regicide or merely a clumsy archer?

37. 10 He was as devious as his adversary was ruthless.

38. 3 She led him by devious ways to the meeting place.

39. Why is it so important to avoid resorting to devious ways?

40. A thief, physically capable, compulsively devious and utterly devoid of soul.

41. And so it was that these devious men hatched a plot.

42. 24 He might be devious, but he was not without principles.

43. 15 The coach followed a rather devious course to its destination.

44. No probing the devious twists and turns of man's darkest motives?

45. 12 He's a devious, secret person and I don't trust him.

46. “ Awakened is a good old-fashioned monster story with devious new twists

47. 4 His devious nature was shown in half-lies and small dishonesties.

48. 28 Our enemies are different now; subtler, more devious than ever before.

49. 13 Susan is a devious person and we can't depend on her.

50. An ambitious prince concocts a devious scheme to usurp his father’s throne.