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Significados de devious em inglês

Characterized by insincerity or deceit.

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Deviating from a straight course.

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Examples for "roundabout"
Examples for "roundabout"
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Which was precisely his point, he supposed, in a long, roundabout way.
Indecent suggestion
2
It seemed a mighty roundabout and dicey way to handle the problem.
Savage
3
MPs laughed as Cameron replied: You could say, in a roundabout way.
The Guardian
4
Sir, - The Leopardstown Road roundabout is an accident waiting to happen.
The Irish Times
5
In a roundabout way I met the fellow who had the papers.
Four Boy Hunters; Or, The Outing of the Gun Club
1
Posteromedial retinacular structures and posterior oblique ligament were injured in all cases.
Pubmed
2
Sometimes the Nobel Prize in Medicine goes to a somewhat oblique achievement.
The Irish Times
3
And the picture is bright enough to remain visible from oblique angles.
Wired
4
The dugouts, lined with lifts, descend in oblique parallels into the depths.
Light
5
She answered one of his oblique questions with crisp assent, ignored another.
Woken furies
1
Kelly's remains have made a circuitous journey to their final resting place.
Reuters
2
It seems a circuitous way; but it may prove a way nevertheless.
Past and Present
3
Which isn't surprising, given the circuitous path it took to our screens.
Wired
4
By this circuitous route we always arrive at hope in the end.
Tragic Sense Of Life
5
The light-railway engine pulled the trucks slowly along by winding circuitous routes.
Combed Out
Uso de devious em inglês
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There are no straight roads in the wilderness; all trails are devious.
Montlivet
2
Yet something about her suggested she possessed a deep and devious intelligence.
Provenance
3
It is time for all decent people to resist his devious tune.
The Guardian
4
It is not a moral decision, neither is it a devious plan.
The Civilization of Illiteracy
5
That the sources may have been wrong or playing some devious game.
The Irish Times
6
Any devious routes to the accomplishment of an object should be avoided.
Vitality Supreme
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She took the warning, coming up for air with a devious smile.
Once bitten, twice dead
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Betty disregarded his advice, and continued her devious route to the hillside.
The Spy
9
Out of the innocent enough statement there grew a long, devious argument.
Six Feet Four
10
To figure that out, Watts and Salganik ran a deliciously devious experiment.
Wired
11
She is very forthright and would not do anything devious or underhanded.
Wild Justice
12
Then they lay complicated plans and by devious ways approach their purpose.
The Unwilling Vestal
13
Luck often took such a devious course, and I started for Groenlandsleret.
Hunger
14
It was unlike him to be devious, as he was being now.
The Canadian / Photoplay title of The Land of Promise
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From afar, scared groups of men and women watched his devious progress.
Almayer's Folly: A Story of an Eastern River
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After class, we strolled home by a devious path, through the moonlight.
Tramping on Life / An Autobiographical Narrative
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