Devious
Out of a straight line; winding; varying from directness; as, a devious path or way.
Going out of the right or common course; going astray; erring; wandering; as, a devious step.
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Devious Quotations
If we insist that public life be reserved for those whose personal history is pristine, we are not going to get paragons of virtue running our affairs. We will get the very rich, who contract out the messy things in life the very dull, who have nothing to hide and nothing to show and the very devious, expert at covering their tracks and ambitious enough to risk their discovery.
Charles Krauthammer
Churchill was the canny political animal, very devious, bursting with energy and determination, learning as hard as he could.
Lord Mountbatten
We all agree that parents have the primary responsibility of filtering the material that reaches children. However, children are often lured onto websites containing obscene material through the devious manipulation of search engines.
Robert A. Brady
It's like someone cutting up a loved one in front of you, all the time insisting they've got your best interests at heart. They're very devious nowadays.
Malcolm Wilson
Devious Translations
devious in German is abwegig
devious in Italian is errato
devious in Norwegian is underfundig
devious in Spanish is desviado
devious in Swedish is slingrande, irrande
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