Definition of devious in English:

devious

adjective ˈdiːvɪəsˈdiviəs

1Showing a skilful use of underhand tactics to achieve goals.
he's as devious as a politician needs to be
they have devious ways of making money
Example sentencesExamples
- These rules may seem stringent but lightning is a tricky, devious phenomenon.
- It can only be the devious and underhand tactic of incorporating it in 90% of the world's web browsers.
- For bridge, all you need is a playing partner, a pair of opponents, a set of cards - and a capacity for wicked, devious cunning.
- It just means that it's necessary to divorce what was said from the devious and somewhat desperate politician who was saying it.
- This results in a personality which is cunning and devious, and refuses to grow up and take responsibility for itself.
- Women feature as sexually voracious, devious, and immoral, destroying men or diverting them from their pursuit of honour.
- It would also, in a case like the present one, be to reward conduct which at best was devious and at worst deceitful.
- They can be cunning and devious, but overall goblins are not very intelligent creatures.
- Thomas Jefferson was a tough, devious politician who viewed the states as supreme.
- Instead of her being devious, duplicitous, and incompetent, perhaps she could answer the question.
- They had somehow managed to re-elect the most devious, blinkered and reckless leader ever put before them.
- They are little better than the smarmy, devious, dishonest and selfish Europeans.
- The police continue to be secretive, devious and opaque - precisely when they ought to be transparent.
- Never before has a devious little plan backfired so badly.
- That is the sort of devious, dodgy tactic this Government gets up to.
- They are duplicitous and devious, always posing, not wishing or able to be authentic.
- Cunning and devious, his story is not only poignant; it also makes for great entertainment!
- The Nazis saw the Jews and Poles as feminine races, achieving their goals through devious plots rather than masculine openness.
- Sometimes it is necessary to adopt devious tactics to expose bullies and cheats.
- It always seems to me a kind of spiteful and devious and underhanded sort of job.
Synonyms
underhand, underhanded, deceitful, dishonest, dishonourable, disreputable, unethical, unprincipled, immoral, unscrupulous, fraudulent, cheating, dubious, dirty, unfair, treacherous, duplicitous, double-dealing, Janus-faced, below the belt, two-timing, two-faced, unsporting, unsportsmanlike
crafty, cunning, calculating, artful, conniving, scheming, designing, sly, wily, guileful, tricky
sneaky, sneaking, furtive, secret, secretive, clandestine, surreptitious, covert, veiled, shrouded, cloak-and-dagger, hugger-mugger, hole-and-corner, hidden, back-alley, backstairs, under the table, conspiratorial
North American snide, snidey
informal crooked, shady, bent, low-down, murky, fishy
British informal dodgy
Australian/New Zealand informal shonky
South African informal slim
2(of a route or journey) longer and less direct than the most straightforward way.
they arrived at the town by a devious route
Example sentencesExamples
- What is difficult about maneuver is to make the devious route the most direct and to turn misfortune to advantage.
- The Scire made her way by a devious route to Port Lago on the Italian-occupied island of Leros in the Aegean to rendezvous with the frogmen crews.
Synonyms
circuitous, roundabout, indirect, meandering, winding, serpentine, tortuous, rambling
rare anfractuous

Derivatives

deviously

adverbˈdiːvɪəsli

Perhaps the fairy godmother could use one of her potions or deviously install her son as Fiona's new husband.
Example sentencesExamples
- Well, here's how I deviously kept the money from those who truly need it.
- Instead of believing that, I have, being the deviously intelligent person I am, found out a way to curb this phobia of mine.
- Little did the police and the authorities, particularly the Foreign Office, know that all along the defendant was deviously spinning a web of lies.
- But the two films were in fact the best directed of the competition, and the most deviously plotted.

deviousness

nounˈdiːvɪəsnəsˈdiviəsnəs

When bad cops and crooks get together, the deviousness is doubled.
Example sentencesExamples
- You can always get what you want by bribery and corruption, dishonesty and deviousness.
- And they've been trying to shake off their reputation for sneakiness, deviousness, and just plain disgustingness, hoping for a new image in the 21st century.
- In his later career as an American Indian agent he earned a reputation for deviousness and dishonesty.
- When we each get up to our particular bit of crookery and deviousness we don't say, ‘I'm stealing or cheating’ we say ‘I'm beating the system.’

Origin

Late 16th century: from Latin devius (from de- 'away from' + via 'way') + -ous. The original sense was 'remote'; the later sense 'departing from the direct route' gave rise to the figurative sense 'deviating from the straight way' and hence 'skilled in underhand tactics'.

via from late 18th century:
The Latin word via meant ‘way, road’. It survives in the names of major Roman roads, such as Via Appia. The Christian Church also uses it in terms such as the Via Dolorosa, the route Jesus is believed to have taken to crucifixion and meaning ‘the painful path’. A deviation (Late Middle English) is literally a turning away from the path as is behaviour that is devious (late 16th century). Viaduct was formed from via in the early 19th century on the model of aqueduct (see duct). An envoy (mid 17th century) is someone sent on their way, formed from French envoyé ‘sent’, while obvious (late 16th century) comes from Latin ob viam ‘in the way’.

Rhymes

devious

adjectiveˈdēvēəsˈdiviəs

1Showing a skillful use of underhanded tactics to achieve goals.
he's as devious as a politician needs to be
they have devious ways of making money
Example sentencesExamples
- Women feature as sexually voracious, devious, and immoral, destroying men or diverting them from their pursuit of honour.
- They can be cunning and devious, but overall goblins are not very intelligent creatures.
- They are duplicitous and devious, always posing, not wishing or able to be authentic.
- It always seems to me a kind of spiteful and devious and underhanded sort of job.
- These rules may seem stringent but lightning is a tricky, devious phenomenon.
- This results in a personality which is cunning and devious, and refuses to grow up and take responsibility for itself.
- Cunning and devious, his story is not only poignant; it also makes for great entertainment!
- That is the sort of devious, dodgy tactic this Government gets up to.
- It just means that it's necessary to divorce what was said from the devious and somewhat desperate politician who was saying it.
- They are little better than the smarmy, devious, dishonest and selfish Europeans.
- Instead of her being devious, duplicitous, and incompetent, perhaps she could answer the question.
- It would also, in a case like the present one, be to reward conduct which at best was devious and at worst deceitful.
- Sometimes it is necessary to adopt devious tactics to expose bullies and cheats.
- They had somehow managed to re-elect the most devious, blinkered and reckless leader ever put before them.
- Never before has a devious little plan backfired so badly.
- It can only be the devious and underhand tactic of incorporating it in 90% of the world's web browsers.
- The police continue to be secretive, devious and opaque - precisely when they ought to be transparent.
- The Nazis saw the Jews and Poles as feminine races, achieving their goals through devious plots rather than masculine openness.
- For bridge, all you need is a playing partner, a pair of opponents, a set of cards - and a capacity for wicked, devious cunning.
- Thomas Jefferson was a tough, devious politician who viewed the states as supreme.
Synonyms
underhand, underhanded, deceitful, dishonest, dishonourable, disreputable, unethical, unprincipled, immoral, unscrupulous, fraudulent, cheating, dubious, dirty, unfair, treacherous, duplicitous, double-dealing, janus-faced, below the belt, two-timing, two-faced, unsporting, unsportsmanlike
2(of a route or journey) longer and less direct than the most straightforward way.
they arrived at the town by a devious route
Example sentencesExamples
- The Scire made her way by a devious route to Port Lago on the Italian-occupied island of Leros in the Aegean to rendezvous with the frogmen crews.
- What is difficult about maneuver is to make the devious route the most direct and to turn misfortune to advantage.
Synonyms
circuitous, roundabout, indirect, meandering, winding, serpentine, tortuous, rambling

Origin

Late 16th century: from Latin devius (from de- ‘away from’ + via ‘way’) + -ous. The original sense was ‘remote’; the later sense ‘departing from the direct route’ gave rise to the figurative sense ‘deviating from the straight way’ and hence ‘skilled in underhand tactics’.

单词	devious
释义	Definition of devious in English: devious adjective ˈdiːvɪəsˈdiviəs 1Showing a skilful use of underhand tactics to achieve goals. he's as devious as a politician needs to be they have devious ways of making money Example sentencesExamples These rules may seem stringent but lightning is a tricky, devious phenomenon. It can only be the devious and underhand tactic of incorporating it in 90% of the world's web browsers. For bridge, all you need is a playing partner, a pair of opponents, a set of cards - and a capacity for wicked, devious cunning. It just means that it's necessary to divorce what was said from the devious and somewhat desperate politician who was saying it. This results in a personality which is cunning and devious, and refuses to grow up and take responsibility for itself. Women feature as sexually voracious, devious, and immoral, destroying men or diverting them from their pursuit of honour. It would also, in a case like the present one, be to reward conduct which at best was devious and at worst deceitful. They can be cunning and devious, but overall goblins are not very intelligent creatures. Thomas Jefferson was a tough, devious politician who viewed the states as supreme. Instead of her being devious, duplicitous, and incompetent, perhaps she could answer the question. They had somehow managed to re-elect the most devious, blinkered and reckless leader ever put before them. They are little better than the smarmy, devious, dishonest and selfish Europeans. The police continue to be secretive, devious and opaque - precisely when they ought to be transparent. Never before has a devious little plan backfired so badly. That is the sort of devious, dodgy tactic this Government gets up to. They are duplicitous and devious, always posing, not wishing or able to be authentic. Cunning and devious, his story is not only poignant; it also makes for great entertainment! The Nazis saw the Jews and Poles as feminine races, achieving their goals through devious plots rather than masculine openness. Sometimes it is necessary to adopt devious tactics to expose bullies and cheats. It always seems to me a kind of spiteful and devious and underhanded sort of job. Synonyms underhand, underhanded, deceitful, dishonest, dishonourable, disreputable, unethical, unprincipled, immoral, unscrupulous, fraudulent, cheating, dubious, dirty, unfair, treacherous, duplicitous, double-dealing, Janus-faced, below the belt, two-timing, two-faced, unsporting, unsportsmanlike crafty, cunning, calculating, artful, conniving, scheming, designing, sly, wily, guileful, tricky sneaky, sneaking, furtive, secret, secretive, clandestine, surreptitious, covert, veiled, shrouded, cloak-and-dagger, hugger-mugger, hole-and-corner, hidden, back-alley, backstairs, under the table, conspiratorial North American snide, snidey informal crooked, shady, bent, low-down, murky, fishy British informal dodgy Australian/New Zealand informal shonky South African informal slim 2(of a route or journey) longer and less direct than the most straightforward way. they arrived at the town by a devious route Example sentencesExamples What is difficult about maneuver is to make the devious route the most direct and to turn misfortune to advantage. The Scire made her way by a devious route to Port Lago on the Italian-occupied island of Leros in the Aegean to rendezvous with the frogmen crews. Synonyms circuitous, roundabout, indirect, meandering, winding, serpentine, tortuous, rambling rare anfractuous Derivatives deviously adverbˈdiːvɪəsli Perhaps the fairy godmother could use one of her potions or deviously install her son as Fiona's new husband. Example sentencesExamples Well, here's how I deviously kept the money from those who truly need it. Instead of believing that, I have, being the deviously intelligent person I am, found out a way to curb this phobia of mine. Little did the police and the authorities, particularly the Foreign Office, know that all along the defendant was deviously spinning a web of lies. But the two films were in fact the best directed of the competition, and the most deviously plotted. deviousness nounˈdiːvɪəsnəsˈdiviəsnəs When bad cops and crooks get together, the deviousness is doubled. Example sentencesExamples You can always get what you want by bribery and corruption, dishonesty and deviousness. And they've been trying to shake off their reputation for sneakiness, deviousness, and just plain disgustingness, hoping for a new image in the 21st century. In his later career as an American Indian agent he earned a reputation for deviousness and dishonesty. When we each get up to our particular bit of crookery and deviousness we don't say, ‘I'm stealing or cheating’ we say ‘I'm beating the system.’ Origin Late 16th century: from Latin devius (from de- 'away from' + via 'way') + -ous. The original sense was 'remote'; the later sense 'departing from the direct route' gave rise to the figurative sense 'deviating from the straight way' and hence 'skilled in underhand tactics'. via from late 18th century: The Latin word via meant ‘way, road’. It survives in the names of major Roman roads, such as Via Appia. The Christian Church also uses it in terms such as the Via Dolorosa, the route Jesus is believed to have taken to crucifixion and meaning ‘the painful path’. A deviation (Late Middle English) is literally a turning away from the path as is behaviour that is devious (late 16th century). Viaduct was formed from via in the early 19th century on the model of aqueduct (see duct). An envoy (mid 17th century) is someone sent on their way, formed from French envoyé ‘sent’, while obvious (late 16th century) comes from Latin ob viam ‘in the way’. Rhymes previous Definition of devious in US English: devious adjectiveˈdēvēəsˈdiviəs 1Showing a skillful use of underhanded tactics to achieve goals. he's as devious as a politician needs to be they have devious ways of making money Example sentencesExamples Women feature as sexually voracious, devious, and immoral, destroying men or diverting them from their pursuit of honour. They can be cunning and devious, but overall goblins are not very intelligent creatures. They are duplicitous and devious, always posing, not wishing or able to be authentic. It always seems to me a kind of spiteful and devious and underhanded sort of job. These rules may seem stringent but lightning is a tricky, devious phenomenon. This results in a personality which is cunning and devious, and refuses to grow up and take responsibility for itself. Cunning and devious, his story is not only poignant; it also makes for great entertainment! That is the sort of devious, dodgy tactic this Government gets up to. It just means that it's necessary to divorce what was said from the devious and somewhat desperate politician who was saying it. They are little better than the smarmy, devious, dishonest and selfish Europeans. Instead of her being devious, duplicitous, and incompetent, perhaps she could answer the question. It would also, in a case like the present one, be to reward conduct which at best was devious and at worst deceitful. Sometimes it is necessary to adopt devious tactics to expose bullies and cheats. They had somehow managed to re-elect the most devious, blinkered and reckless leader ever put before them. Never before has a devious little plan backfired so badly. It can only be the devious and underhand tactic of incorporating it in 90% of the world's web browsers. The police continue to be secretive, devious and opaque - precisely when they ought to be transparent. The Nazis saw the Jews and Poles as feminine races, achieving their goals through devious plots rather than masculine openness. For bridge, all you need is a playing partner, a pair of opponents, a set of cards - and a capacity for wicked, devious cunning. Thomas Jefferson was a tough, devious politician who viewed the states as supreme. Synonyms underhand, underhanded, deceitful, dishonest, dishonourable, disreputable, unethical, unprincipled, immoral, unscrupulous, fraudulent, cheating, dubious, dirty, unfair, treacherous, duplicitous, double-dealing, janus-faced, below the belt, two-timing, two-faced, unsporting, unsportsmanlike 2(of a route or journey) longer and less direct than the most straightforward way. they arrived at the town by a devious route Example sentencesExamples The Scire made her way by a devious route to Port Lago on the Italian-occupied island of Leros in the Aegean to rendezvous with the frogmen crews. What is difficult about maneuver is to make the devious route the most direct and to turn misfortune to advantage. Synonyms circuitous, roundabout, indirect, meandering, winding, serpentine, tortuous, rambling Origin Late 16th century: from Latin devius (from de- ‘away from’ + via ‘way’) + -ous. The original sense was ‘remote’; the later sense ‘departing from the direct route’ gave rise to the figurative sense ‘deviating from the straight way’ and hence ‘skilled in underhand tactics’.
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Definition of devious in English:

devious

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Rhymes

Definition of devious in US English:

devious

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