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Common misspellings for devious

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Definitions of devious

indirect in departing from the accepted or proper way; misleading; " used devious means to achieve success"; " gave oblique answers to direct questions"; " oblique political maneuvers"
Out of the common track; wandering; roving; going astray.
deviating from a straight course; " a scenic but devious route"; " a long and circuitous journey by train and boat"; " a roundabout route avoided rush- hour traffic"
characterized by insincerity or deceit; evasive; " a devious character"; " shifty eyes"
Deviously.
Deviousness.
Off the common way or track; rambling; erring.
Out of a straight line; winding; varying from directness; as, a devious path or way.
Indirect; rambling; circuitous or round- about; straying from the way of right and duty.
From or out of the way: erring.
See deviate.
Winding about; rambling.
Going out of the right or common course; going astray; erring; wandering; as, a devious step.
Straying; wandering.

Antonyms for devious

forthright, plain, trusting, unexceptional, public, simpleminded, trustworthy, usual, genuine, truthful, average, unpretending, representative, aboveboard, plainspoken, unvarnished, ordinary, trustful, obvious, outspoken, unpretentious, ingenuous, wonted, unstudied, commonplace, unremarkable, candid, frank, standard, everyday, straight, real, unforced, trusty, unworldly, naive, impressionable, artless, true, innocent, archetypal, right, honest, natural, characteristic, customary, Undesigning, typical, veracious, unsophisticated, straightaway, unconcealed, run-of-the-mine, patent, workaday, Familiar, linear, routine, run-of-the-mill, guileless, straightforward, open, simple, normal, common, unaffected, childlike, direct, sincere, regular.

Quotes of devious

We all agree that parents have the primary responsibility of filtering the material that reaches children. However, children are often lured onto websites containing obscene material through the devious manipulation of search engines. – Robert A. Brady
If we insist that public life be reserved for those whose personal history is pristine, we are not going to get paragons of virtue running our affairs. We will get the very rich, who contract out the messy things in life the very dull, who have nothing to hide and nothing to show and the very devious expert at covering their tracks and ambitious enough to risk their discovery. – Charles Krauthammer
Churchill was the canny political animal, very devious bursting with energy and determination, learning as hard as he could. – Lord Mountbatten
It's like someone cutting up a loved one in front of you, all the time insisting they've got your best interests at heart. They're very devious nowadays. – Malcolm Wilson

Usage examples for devious

“ It is true that as the smoke- wreaths ring themselves above his head, his mind may wander off into devious paths of reverie, and the problem be utterly forgotten. ” – The Social History of Smoking by G. L. Apperson
“ So working to the point by devious ways She said at last: " You must give me the key, The sealed instruction: I'll go to the box, And get the letters, do with them as Elenor Directed in the letter; for I think, Cannot believe it different, that my niece Has left these letters with me, so directs In that sealed letter." ” – Domesday Book by Edgar Lee Masters
“ Every day he seemed more distant, and she followed him patiently, hopefully, blindly, but steadily, through all the devious wanderings of his mind. ” – An Outcast of the Islands by Joseph Conrad
“ We found the attendant waiting, and by a devious route along many passages and through many doors we reached our destination at last. ” – The Master Mummer by E. Phillips Oppenheim
“ I had forced her, by devious ways, to pretend that she was in love with him- keeping that perjury thing hanging over her all the time and constantly harping on how, even though he was a nice young fellow, he was robbing us both of something that was rightfully ours. ” – The White Desert by Courtney Ryley Cooper
“ The wondering Parcea looked and smiled, As the light grew into the soul of a child, And in and out and through devious ways, They wove it in with the woof of days. ” – Songs Ysame by Annie Fellows Johnston Albion Fellows Bacon
“ He would turn the carriage round and drive by devious ways to the house of Golitzine. ” – The Intriguers by William Le Queux
“ After 1625 there was never a Parliament but had its committee to discuss religion, and to stray into the devious places of divinity. ” – Oxford by Lang, Andrew
“ By devious ways it was that Eddie led them out of that sinister country surrounding the Sinks. ” – Cow-Country by B. M. Bower
“ Or again, devious routes were resorted to. ” – The Life of Napoleon I (Volumes, 1 and 2) by John Holland Rose
“ They followed a devious winding road- in and out- with much care, the father holding Wilfred's hand all the time, until they emerged and found themselves ascending between two steep banks. ” – The Rival Heirs being the Third and Last Chronicle of Aescendune by A. D. Crake
“ At the foot of the hill, around the pier and harbour to the north and east, clustered St. Hugh's town, and climbed by one devious street to the garrison gate. ” – Major Vigoureux by A. T. Quiller-Couch
“ The scene so vividly described in the charming ballad we are considering is a little valley through which Herring Brook pursues its devious way to meet the tidal waters of North River. ” – The Romance of Old New England Rooftrees by Mary Caroline Crawford
“ He was a clever man, trained in the devious ways of the Wilhelmstrasse, and when he set out to accomplish something he was almost inevitably successful. ” – The Man Who Rocked the Earth by Arthur Train Robert Williams Wood
“ As I thus stood, transfixed with wonder, I began to grow painfully conscious of the injuries I had received in the scuffle; skulked round among the sand- hills; and, by a devious path, regained the shelter of the wood. ” – New-Arabian-Nights by Stevenson, Robert Louis
“ We must walk in new ways, or we can never encounter our enemy in his devious march. ” – The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. V. (of 12) by Edmund Burke
“ At last it strikes you that they grew up, house by house, on the devious tracks of the old green lanes; and if you follow on to the existing fields, you may often find the change half complete. ” – The English Constitution by Walter Bagehot
“ Did Paredes, in fact, have some devious purpose in remaining at the Cedars? ” – The Abandoned Room by Wadsworth Camp
“ And around these symbols, multiplied to such a degree over the things that they were to represent that they finished by no longer having any value, Business came forth, a giant, arising, from all sides, on the shoulders of those most wretched in their poverty, and through all the devious ways of politics; it was especially shameless in its way of taking part in war and its glorious successes. ” – Essays on the Materialistic Conception of History by Antonio Labriola
“ She let Pip- Emma lead her by devious paths through the deserted kitchen. ” – The Underpup by I. A. R. Wylie

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