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Definition of the day : « more devious »

  • adj dishonest, crafty
  • adj crooked; indirect
Example sentences :
  • Defeated in that, his enemies resorted to a more devious method; they began to lop away his friends.
  • Extract from : « The Outline of History: Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind » by Herbert George Wells
  • I wouldn't want you to think that Psi's are more devious or Machiavellian than normals, but sometimes they act it.
  • Extract from : « The Right Time » by Walter Bupp
  • Indeed the professionally downright man is often more devious than the tactful person.
  • Extract from : « The Unpopular Review Vol. I » by Various
  • Moved by projects deeper and more devious than ours, the Dutchman made haste to cover up what seemed to have been an overshot.
  • Extract from : « The Best Short Stories of 1921 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story » by Various
  • But fifteen miles would do it, if the more devious path had to be taken.
  • Extract from : « The Gunpowder Plot and Lord Mounteagle's Letter » by Henry Hawkes Spink Jr.
  • Such subtlety as he possessed had been acquired through contact with the more devious races.
  • Extract from : « Jewels of Gwahlur » by Robert E. Howard
  • The original road, too, adopted in imperial times a more devious but easier route by Aeclanum instead of by Trevicum.
  • Extract from : « Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 3 » by Various