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Meanings of deviousness in inglés

catalán
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The quality of being deceitful and underhanded.

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The quality of being oblique and rambling indirectly.

Synonyms
Examples for "crookedness"
Examples for "crookedness"
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I'm sick of it all-thegetting and the spending and the crookedness.
The Price
2
Has not the pressure of society cramped them into pettiness and crookedness?
The Home and the World
3
Did he not think the crookedness of their carpet patterns a blemish?
An Unsocial Socialist
4
It's unpleasant, I know, but the man carries every mark of crookedness.
The Abandoned Room
5
This was a set of circumstances ripe for crookedness in baseball.
The original curse: did the cubs throw the 1918 world series to ...
Usage of deviousness in inglés
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But all politics is hypocrisy, an edifice of pretence, insincerity and deviousness.
The Guardian
2
The CIA was impressed with my cleverness, my deviousness, and particularly my ruthlessness.
The President's Assassin
3
You are an aggressive, unbalanced race, and capable of amazing deviousness.
The Robot Who Looked Like Me
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I am quite aware of my inborn tendency for deviousness.
Layover in dubai
5
Rabban's much younger brother Feyd, though only fourteen, showed a greater deviousness and wit.
Paul of dune
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But we should never underestimate the deviousness of the Separatists.
Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith
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Their incapacity for a little common deviousness from time to necessary time was quite bewildering.
Dante's numbers
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Nothing in his background suggests this level of deviousness.
The President's Assassin
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Without hesitation he attacked when any sign of deviousness, confusion, or simple lack of clarity surfaced.
The Tarn of Eternity
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Anne was also amused to observe that O'Byrne, with a kindly deviousness, was letting Maurice win.
The rebels of ireland: the dublin saga
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There's a deviousness to her, an inherent .
The darkest touch
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Moticker stood up and for the first time I could see a con's deviousness in his face.
A visible darkness
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Allen was genial in the extreme, with twinkling eyes, a belly laugh, and an almost impish deviousness.
Legacy of ashes: the history of the cia
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From that point on I was a changed person, a new specialist in low cunning, deviousness, and subterfuge.
A colossal failure of common sense: the inside story of the coll...
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But the deviousness and aberration of our human faculties frequently amount to something considerably more serious than this.
Thoughts on Man, His Nature, Productions and Discoveries / Inter...
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They were slow, they were thorough; none of the slapdash arrogance and sudden deviousness that marked Karhidish officialdom.
The Left Hand of Darkness
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Translations for deviousness
catalán
tortuositat
Deviousness through the time