The quality of being deceitful and underhanded.
The quality of being oblique and rambling indirectly.
1 But all politics is hypocrisy, an edifice of pretence, insincerity and deviousness .
2 The CIA was impressed with my cleverness, my deviousness , and particularly my ruthlessness.
3 You are an aggressive, unbalanced race, and capable of amazing deviousness .
4 I am quite aware of my inborn tendency for deviousness .
5 Rabban's much younger brother Feyd, though only fourteen, showed a greater deviousness and wit.
6 But we should never underestimate the deviousness of the Separatists.
7 Their incapacity for a little common deviousness from time to necessary time was quite bewildering.
8 Nothing in his background suggests this level of deviousness .
9 Without hesitation he attacked when any sign of deviousness , confusion, or simple lack of clarity surfaced.
10 Anne was also amused to observe that O'Byrne, with a kindly deviousness , was letting Maurice win.
11 There's a deviousness to her, an inherent .
12 Moticker stood up and for the first time I could see a con's deviousness in his face.
13 Allen was genial in the extreme, with twinkling eyes, a belly laugh, and an almost impish deviousness .
14 From that point on I was a changed person, a new specialist in low cunning, deviousness , and subterfuge.
15 But the deviousness and aberration of our human faculties frequently amount to something considerably more serious than this.
16 They were slow, they were thorough; none of the slapdash arrogance and sudden deviousness that marked Karhidish officialdom.
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