deviousadjective
uk/ˈdiː.vi.əs/us/ˈdiː.vi.əs/devious adjective (DISHONEST)
Devious people or plans and methods are dishonest, often in a complicated way, but often also clever and successful:
You have to be devious if you're going to succeed in business.
a devious scheme
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Dishonest
- bad faith
- be rotten to the core idiom
- be up to no good idiom
- bent
- cowboy
- dubious
- false
- finagle
- fishy
- fly-by-night
- malfeasance
- mendacious
- misleading
- perjure
- rich
- underhand
- unreliable
- unscrupulous
- unsporting
- weasel
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Sly & devious
devious adjective (NOT DIRECT)
not direct:
He took a rather devious route which avoids the city centre.
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Bending, twisting and curving
- bent
- bowed
- buckle
- contort
- convoluted
- crook
- fluted
- intertwine
- interweave
- knot
- matted
- meander
- meandering
- roil
- twine
- twisted
- twisty
- warp
- warped
- wring
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deviously
adverb uk/ˈdiː.vi.əs.li/us/ˈdiː.vi.əs.li/
deviousness
noun [ U ] uk/ˈdiː.vi.əs.nəs/us/ˈdiː.vi.əs.nəs/