Marked by deliberate deceptiveness especially by pretending one set of feelings and acting under the influence of another.
Characterized by insincerity or deceit.
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Examples for "devious "
Examples for "devious "
1 There are no straight roads in the wilderness; all trails are devious .
2 Yet something about her suggested she possessed a deep and devious intelligence.
3 It is time for all decent people to resist his devious tune.
4 It is not a moral decision, neither is it a devious plan.
5 That the sources may have been wrong or playing some devious game.
1 Better warn him, if he's a friend of yours.' She looked shifty .
2 What must the rest of the cast think of such shifty behaviour?
3 Methought I saw once more the furtive, shifty eyes of the maniac.
4 Indeed they are, but not with that shifty Swede in charge, surely?
5 Sergius grew crimson under the taunting voice and the little, shifty eyes.
1 He is in the fierce Camp: he is in the deceitful Court.
2 This is not only wrong in content and process, but again deceitful .
3 He and others in a similar deceitful condition are influencing the Emperor.
4 Not after she'd led him to believe her motives were so deceitful .
5 They imagine deceitful words against them that are quiet in the land.
6 The mode of judging by the taste of spiritous liquors is deceitful .
7 I never was known as deceitful ; ask any one who knows me.
8 But this deceitful quiet was only the calm that precedes the storm.
9 For a time she forgot Seymour Michael; but love is eminently deceitful .
10 The poor do not please them: they are mean, deceitful and dishonest.
11 How much more deceitful than her lover is the little nursery governess.
12 A deceitful tongue loveth not truth: and a slippery mouth worketh ruin.
13 That was the story of a deceitful marriage-surelyall unlike his own.
14 The Witch was cruel, deceitful and always bad, deserving her awful fate.
15 His animal nature was predominant, and this led him to be deceitful .
16 It was indeed Fanny's voice, in its most insinuating and deceitful tones.
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